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Francesca Simon

Date of birth 01.Jul.53
Place of birth Singapore
Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact info@francescasimonstudio.com

Francesca Simon works in Vauxhall and also in Glaisdale, North Yorkshire. Principally a painter, she also makes etchings. Time spent in the North York Moors is an important part of her practice. The grids formed by the drystone walls of the area are the starting point for the work she makes, which transforms elements characteristic of traditional landscape into a personal abstract language. In her new network series she adopts a pouring process to create an organic structure of marks and grids, resonant of the topography of her landscape. She intentionally restricts her mark-making and palette so that each piece is refined by an economy of expression.

She read Law at Newnham College, Cambridge in the 1970s. Her painting career began in the 1990s. She has a Diploma in Portraiture from the Heatherley School of Fine Art (2000) and a degree in Fine Art (Painting) from City & Guilds of London Art School (2005). In 2004 she won a travel award from the Skinners Company.

Exhibitions
2007 Scratching the Surface, abstract paintings by Stewart Geddes, Clyde Hopkins, Francesca Simon and Gary Wragg, The Drawing Schools Eton College (catalogue at www.francescasimonstudio.com/eton07pdf); Arts Unwrapped
2006 Circus, group show of work by theartpack and invited artists, The Empire, Bethnal Green; Art on the Hill; the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Reflected Images, Robert Dunt and Francesca Simon, the Gallery Upstairs, Pimlico
2005 Sheridan Russell Gallery; the Affordable Art Fair; Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk; Life Squared, a Microsoft Event, Fulham.
Events Tate Britain and Vauxhall Street Space Studios Art Walk, 08.Dec.07, 1pm


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