Simon Garden RWA
Artist’s Statement
I have been drawing since my earliest memory.
Drawing has always felt like such a natural language to me, ancient and there before we learn to speak our first word. I am reminded of something said by the artist and teacher Howard Ikemoto; “When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college and that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?
PUBLICATIONS
Strange Wolds, The Vision Of Angela Carter
Evolver Books, 50 Wessex Artists
Biography
Simon Garden RWA
Born 1960
Graduated. First Class B.A. Hons Degree – Fine Art, Exeter
2000 - Elected as Academician by The Royal West of England Academy
Simon Garden Artist" Occasionally, just occasionally, one comes across an artist whose work sets the heart beating uncommonly fast. Simon Garden's paintings do just that, drawing the viewer into an extraordinary world, part imaginary, part real" - Brian Sinfield Gallery
"Garden succeeds in mapping the landscapes of our dreams. He communicates directly to our subconscious, unhindered by rationality. His paintings invite a gut-wrenching sense of personal familiarity and recognition"
Beaux Arts, Bath
"The rare simplicity and purity of vision in his painting arouses the subconscious and fires the imagination. He is an artist who creates a sense of composition that is classically beautiful and at the same time, daring"
Red Rag Gallery
"The paintings of Simon Garden reveal a parallel world of haunting mystery of legends and myths and memories of long ago, all imbued with a golden light and an atmosphere of suspense"
Derek Balmer, President, Royal West of England Academy
"His work suggests the stuff of myth and legend, but it is never directly translated. The narrative is always oblique, leaving space for invention. Bruegel-like, his creatures, human or animal, immerse themselves in their own concerns"
Publication
Evolver Books - Fifty Wessex ArtistsSimon Garden RWA is an award-winning artist based in the United Kingdom whose paintings have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions in England. Through his works, he explores themes relating to hope, wonderment, and poetry. Garden fabricates his own paint and mediums, which gives him a more intimate understanding of the medium itself. In terms of his artistic practice, he is fascinated by the function of memory when "hunting down" an image.Awards
2017 - RWA. Strange Worlds. The Vision Of Angela Carter, Invited Artist
2012 - Toronto Art Fair
2010 - Islington Art Fair
2009 - RCA Art Fair
2004 - Discerning Eye. London.South West Prizewinner
2002 - The Hunting Prize Exhibition, London
2001 - 50 Wessex Artists.Brewhouse, Taunton
2000 - Cutlers Exchange, Regent St. Selected South West PaintersExhibitions
2018 - ‘Transition.’ Catto Gallery, London
2016 - ‘Mixing Oil & Water’ Brian Sinfield, Gallery
2014 - ‘Succesive Approximations’ Thompsons, Gallery
2013 - Sladers Yard. Bridport Thompsons Gallery, London
2013 - Brian Sinfield Gallery, Cotswolds
2012 - ‘Journey' Beaux Arts, Bath
2011 - ‘If It Could Be’ Thompsons-Marylebone, London
2010 - ‘New Paintings’ Beaux Arts, Bath
2010 - Sladers Yard, Bridport
2009 - Thompsons- Marylebone, London
2008 - Beaux Arts, Bath
2007 - Thompsons- Marylebone, London
2006 - Brian Sinfield Gallery, Cotswolds
2005 - Thompsons-Marylebone, London
2002 - Thompsons Gallery
2001 - Beaux Arts, Bath
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