Past Exhibition:
Better Than A Poke In The Eye
5th - 18th May 2011
Thompson's Marylebone
Based in Bristol, Simon Garden's talent was first acknowledged by the public during the 1998 Summer Exhibition at Beaux Arts, Bath. He now shows regularly at the Royal Academy and is a young artist who has already obtained a strong national following.
With seductive use of rich colour and texture, and a sense of composition that is at once classically beautiful and daring, Simon Garden strips his landscapes and nudes down to their most elemental. This rare simplicity and purity of vision arouses the subconscious and fires the imagination, drawing us irresistibly into a world both dreamlike and timeless.
Education
1982 Exeter School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) 1st class, Fine Art
2002 Elected as Academician by the Royal West of England Academy
Exhibitions
ONE MAN SHOWS
2007 Thompson’s Gallery, Marylebone, London
2005 Thompson’s Gallery, Marylebone, London
2002 Thompson's Gallery, Stow – on – the Wold
2001 Beaux Arts, Bath
1999 Beaux Arts, Bath
1995 Happening Gallery, Bristol
1990 Theatre Royal, Brighton
MIXED SHOWS
2004 'Naked', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2002 Discerning Eye, London
South West Prizewinner
2001 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
First National Open Painting Exhibition
2000 The Hunting Prize Exhibition, London
1998 Royal West of England Academy
Exhibition of Invited Artists, Bristol
Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts, Bath
1997 to 2004 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Autumn Exhibitions
1993 The Studio Gallery, Bristol
1992/1993/1995 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1991 Cutlers Exchange, Regents Street, London
'Selected South West Painters' show
Private Collections
UK, Holland, Australia, Netherlands, Japan
Commissions
Chepstow Castle Visitor Center Wales
Chew Magna Visitor Centre Somerset
West Sussex Conservation Centre Horsham
Black Park Conservation Centre Slough
Avon Wildlife Trust, Willsbridge Mill Bristol
Lecturing
University of West of England – Life Drawing (1994-6)
Visiting Lecturer, Worthing College of Art and Design
