Philip Reeves was born in Cheltenham in 1931 and came to the Glasgow School of Art as a teacher in the 1950s. He served as the President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours 1998- 2005. He is a founding member of both the Edinburgh Printmakers' Workshop, and the Glasgow Print Studio and his work has been displayed in collections across Scotland, and in Canada, Denmark, England, France, Norway and the United States.