Tom Phillips obituary

Painter, printmaker and collagist known for his extraordinary breadth of involvement in the artsIn 1966, the artist Tom Phillips, who has died aged 85 after a long illness, walked into a junk shop on Peckham Rye in south London and bought a novel called A Human Document by the Victorian writer William Hurrell Mallock.The choice of book was random. “I’d decided it should the first one I picked up that cost thruppence, and this one did,” Phillips recalled in an interview to mark