Phil Nicol

{{Short description|Welsh painter (born 1953)}}

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Philip Nicol (born in 1953, Caerphilly, Wales){{Citation |author=David Moore |title=A Taste of the Avant Garde: 56 Group Wales 56 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8WsNAEACAAJ |publisher=Crooked Window |place=Brecon |year=2012 |page=60 |format=Book |isbn=978-0-9563602-1-2 }} is a Welsh painter.

Nicol graduated from Cardiff College of Art. He has been a lecturer at the Cardiff School and at Limerick Art College, Éire.

His paintings often portray twilight inner city landscapes.

He was the winner of the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2001.{{cite web |title=Gold Medal for Fine Art |work=Eisteddfod.org.uk |publisher=The National Eisteddfod of Wales |url=http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/about-us/our-history/winners/gold-medal-for-fine-art/ |access-date=8 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226073553/http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/about-us/our-history/winners/gold-medal-for-fine-art/ |archive-date=26 December 2013 }}

Nicol was a member of the 56 Group Wales from 1984 to 1991. He is exhibition director at the BayArt gallery, Cardiff Bay.{{cite news|author=Moira Sharkey |title=you BUTE-Y! |work=South Wales Echo |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/you+BUTE-Y!-a083237656 |date=23 February 2002 |access-date=8 January 2014}}

His paintings are in the public collections of the National Museum of Wales, Newport Art Gallery and the National Assembly for Wales.{{cite web|title=Philip Nicol paintings |work=Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/search/search/search/keyword:nicol-philip-b |format=Slideshow |access-date=8 January 2014}}