Philip Delisle is a painter, writer, and educator whose work investigates image-making as a form of thinking and inquiry. His practice explores how images are constructed, destabilized, and reconfigured through shifting material conditions, recursive structures, and parallel working modes.
Working across painting, drawing, and studio-based systems, he develops processes that allow images to emerge through interference, fragmentation, and recombination—often folding together figuration, abstraction, digital imagery, and art-historical reference within a single field. His work engages questions of perception, creativity, and embodied forms of thought, drawing on both studio practice and philosophical frameworks.
Delisle holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Waterloo and an MFA from NSCAD University. He completed a PhD in Visual Arts at York University, where his dissertation, Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson, and Jung, examined image-making as a dynamic interplay of intuition, embodiment, and philosophy.
He teaches studio art at the university level, with a focus on contemporary painting, drawing, and the relationship between creative practice and inner life. His work has been exhibited nationally, and he continues to develop an interdisciplinary practice that bridges painting, digital culture, philosophy, and psychology.
contact: [email protected]
Working across painting, drawing, and studio-based systems, he develops processes that allow images to emerge through interference, fragmentation, and recombination—often folding together figuration, abstraction, digital imagery, and art-historical reference within a single field. His work engages questions of perception, creativity, and embodied forms of thought, drawing on both studio practice and philosophical frameworks.
Delisle holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Waterloo and an MFA from NSCAD University. He completed a PhD in Visual Arts at York University, where his dissertation, Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson, and Jung, examined image-making as a dynamic interplay of intuition, embodiment, and philosophy.
He teaches studio art at the university level, with a focus on contemporary painting, drawing, and the relationship between creative practice and inner life. His work has been exhibited nationally, and he continues to develop an interdisciplinary practice that bridges painting, digital culture, philosophy, and psychology.
contact: [email protected]