Painter James Phillips is product of the Weusi Ya Naa Academy of Fine Arts. Through the influence of Ademola and other contemporary African artists and 20th Century African American artists he developed his own personal style of painting. He incorporated African patterns and designs throughout his compositions which included fore ground and background to look like on design. In 1973 he became member of AfriCobra, because some of the members were using similar patterns and motifs that he was using, that evolved into what young writers and art historians are calling the AfriCobra style or tradition.
Phillips has shown nationally with exhibitions at Hampton University Museum in Hampton VA, Smithsonian Museum and Howard University in Washington DC, and Cornell University in New York. He has created murals at the Philadelphia International Airport, the Criminal Court Building in Philadelphia, Cal Train in San Francisco, and Cramton Auditorium at Howard University in Washington DC. He is highly collected by individuals through out the nation.

Opposing Forces - Spear Khucker Series ------------------Water spirits revisited - birth ---------------- Homage to Tunji - Spear Khucker Series