Hard to Categorize Paintings by Phil Ashcroft

At first, Phil Ashcroft's paintings appear as sharp, abstract works. But look at them a little longer and you'll clearly see a cartoon or comic book style with elements of graffiti emerge. On his site, Ashcroft admits to a heavy abstract expressionist influence to which he incorporates other varied visual styles like British landscape, Japanese woodcuts and graphic street art to "generate a crossover between space, object and environment".