“really beautiful work… wonderful honesty and vulnerability, which comes from a genuine creative process" - Emma Helbrough, author and editor.
“stunning and generous work… I want it everywhere" - Joanna King, Curator.
"Simon M Smith's works combine intricate elements of collage with finely painted details to create a unique visual language. His paintings have a mesmerising quality drawing the viewer in layer after layer. Simon's works are accessible on so many levels: they are breathtakingly beautiful as decorative objects, but upon closer inspection one can't help but get drawn into a dream-like world of colours and shapes created by the artist." - Natalia Rubinstein
“Simon M Smith is, in my view, one of the very best practitioners of his generation" - John Gilboy, Orange Street Gallery
"...a Picasso of his time..." - Adriana de Barros
Exhibitions
Royal Academy Summer Show; Cork Street Open; Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Hampstead, Edinburgh, Bristol, Brussels; King's Lynn Arts Centre (solo show); The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne; Chelsea Art Fair; Grand Designs Live; Barbara Stanley Gallery; ING Discerning Eye; School House Gallery; Gallery57 Arundel; Contemporary Art Fairs Surrey, Reading and Windsor; Edinburgh Art Fair; The Other Art Fair, London and Bristol; Ludlow summer exhibition; Cambridge Art Fair; Galeria Gaudi, Madrid; 9th Art Apart Fair Singapore; McAllister Thomas Fine Art; Sheridan Russell Gallery; Burnham Grapevine Gallery; Sotheby's Fashion, Arts and Culture Auction; The Art Stable; The Moreton Gallery; Angela Mellor Gallery; Grapevine Contemporary Arts; Alpha House Gallery; Alan Kluckow Fine Art; Suffolk Showcase; Royal Society of Birmingham artists; Orange Street Gallery (solo show); Lime Tree Gallery; Modern Artists Gallery; Horace Blue Gallery; Mercury Theatre (solo show); Light Gallery; Liberte d'expression, Barclays Global Headquarters, Candid Arts Trust; Stanley Picker Gallery; The Wall Gallery (two solo shows); Euroart Gallery; Olympia Grand Hall; Eastern Open, King's Lynn; Peterborough Art House; Kettle's Yard Open; Cheltenham Open Drawing:
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels, Karl Hofer Gallery, Berlin, European Illustration Collection, Humberside University; Drawings for All: Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Stamford Arts Centre, Chelmsford Art Gallery, King of Hearts Norwich, De Montfort University Lincoln.