paintings
biography

Born in Cheshire in 1955, Simon moved to the western tip of Cornwall to become a full-time painter in 1992. Having practised as an architect for 12 years in London and Sheffield, he designed and built his own studio at his home in Penwith, a place where the raw, elemental landscape provides constant inspiration.

He is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists,

“I seem to have had a pencil in my hand for most of my life and I can recall my response to a place or object more easily through the experience of having drawn it. But for me, studio work is about memory, and memories, with the passage of time, are susceptible to unconscious editing. In the studio these submerged experiences, which have been subjected to the alchemical process of distillation,
become small internal impulses that are sometimes quiet, sometimes still, but may, at another time, rush to the surface and cry out for attention and creative expression. This is the moment for me to begin work. Using line and colour to create a psychological space for my subject I continually overpaint, improvising as I go, responding to
the process of the painting’s own evolution.”