Exhibitions

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  Driven to Abstraction

  JULIA COOPER | JENNIFER DURRANT RA | VANESSA GARDINER | HOWARD HODGKIN RA | NICKY KNOWLES RWA | CLARE PACKER 4 - 25 Nov 2023 Exploring colour, form, texture, materials and composition. Julia Cooper's studio overlooks the Fowey estuary and so the changing lights reflected off the water invariably provide inspiration for her palette. Julia’s abstract paintings are a series of colour notes observed from wild Cornish beaches, coastline and moods of the weather. The... Read more

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  St Ives Modernists

  Sandra Blow | George Dannatt | Terry Frost | Barbara Hepworth | Patrick Heron | Breon O'Casey | Ben Nicholson | William Scott 12 - 28 Oct 2023 St Ives Artists, St Ives Modernists, St Ives School of Art, St Ives School, Terry Frost, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Breon O'Cassey, Ben Nicholson, William Scott Read more

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  Modern British Art

  David Hockney RA | Howard Hodgkin RA | Brian Rice | Jennifer Durrant RA | Henry Moore 12 Oct - 25 Nov 2023 Read more

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  Pablo Picasso; Lydia Corbett & Alice Corbett: My Life's Inspiration

  SOHO.HOME.STUDIO, 6 Duke of York Square, London, SW3 4LY 27 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Pablo Picasso; Lydia Corbett -The Girl with the Ponytail; Alice Corbett ceramics Read more

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  Summer

  11 - 23 Sep 2023 Read more

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  World of Interiors

  Hugh Buchanan; Hugo Grenville; Victoria Jinivizian; Peter Lloyd-Jones, Alex Lowery; Mungo Powney; Ceramics by The Chelsea Potter 8 Jul - 26 Aug 2023 Whether depicting an artist's studio or home, or perhaps the stately rooms of a country house, these compositions give a snap-shot into the private lives of others. They might include a figure in contemplative mood or a still life. Tabletops and chairs recently vacated; scenes conspicuous by the feeling of... Read more

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  Styled by Design

  GEORGES BRAQUE, BERNARD BUFFET, SONIA DELAUNAY, BARBARA HEPWORTH, PATRICK HERON, ELISABETH FRINK, HENRY MOORE, BEN NICHOLSON, PABLO PICASSO, JOHN PIPER 19 May - 30 Jun 2023 Modern british art, twentieth century, modernism, modernist, textiles, textile art, investment art, Sonia Delaunay, Bernard Buffet., Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Elizabeth Frink, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, John Piper Read more

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  Spring Mixed Exhibition

  Andrew Lansley, Diana Matthews, Alice Mumford, Myles Oxenford, Jackie Philip 7 Apr - 6 May 2023 Read more

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  Across the Coast

  Peter Ceredig-Evans; Julia Cooper; Gareth Edwards RWA; Myles Oxenford 4 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 exhibition of paintings relating to sea; coast; contemporaryoil paintings Read more

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  Impressions on Paper

  4 - 28 Feb 2023 Modern British and contemporary paintings and original printmaking. Hugo Grenville; Nicky Knowles; Virginia Bridge, Anne Desmet, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson; Lydia Corbett; y Sandra Blow; Terry Frost; John Hoyland Read more

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  For the Love of Art

  Ideas for an alternative Valentine's Day gift that will last a lifetime 30 Jan - 14 Feb 2023 Prices start from £295 and many of these pieces are under £1,000. Please email for a price list. Read more

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  John Croft at 100

  14 - 31 Jan 2023 John Croft CBE was born in Hampstead in 1923. In 1942 whilst reading History at Oxford University, he was invited to work for the British Intelligence Service, which took him to work at Bletchley Park for six months, intercepting and deciphering communications from German High Command. After the war, following... Read more

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  Mixed Winter Exhibition

  Julia Cooper; Lydia Corbett; Parastoo Ganjei; Howard Hodgkin; Steven Hubbard; Deborah Jackson; Victoria Jinivizion; Bridget Moore; Lawrence Quigley; Mike Service; David Ralph Simpson; Frances Watts 7 - 31 Jan 2023 Our popular and anticipated annual Mixed Winter Exhibition includes paintings, ceramics and bronze sculpture. Works may be taken at any point of the exhibition during December and January. EMAIL TO REQUEST CATALOGUE - gallery@davidsimoncontemporary.com Read more

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  Alice Corbett & Lydia Corbett

  Ceramics 5 - 28 Nov 2022 Ceramicist, Alice Corbett and her mother, Lydia Corbett, artist and one of the last surviving models of Pablo Picasso have collaborated on this series of ceramic sculptures. Read more

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  Lydia Corbett & Pablo Picasso

  Out of Vallauris 4 - 28 Nov 2022 A rare exhibition of paintings, works on paper and ceramics by both Lydia Corbett and Pablo Picasso. Lydia Corbett, née Sylvette David, was the subject of more than sixty paintings and sculptures by Picasso, after meeting in 1953 and is the only internationally recognised artist of that period who is... Read more

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  Chloë Holt

  Semper Hortus 1 - 31 Oct 2022 Chloë Holt, born in 1981, is one of the youngest artists ever to be an elected member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and was selected by Maurice Cockrill RA, President and Keeper of the Royal Academy, London, in 2012. For her third exhibition with David Simon Contemporary, she continues her... Read more

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  Parastoo Ganjei

  Semper Hortus 1 - 31 Oct 2022 Parastoo Ganjei beautifully captures the different stages of the life of a rose in bloom. This recurring theme is a celebration of the beauty of a flower as it continues on, changing shape, colour and form. The paintings in this new exhibition, despite their still-life subjects, carry emotional charge and... Read more

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  Mick Lindberg

  Awakening a Dream 3 - 30 Sep 2022 David Simon Contemporary is pleased to present this refreshing solo exhibition, Mick Lindberg's third show with the gallery. This moving body of work, created in textiles, touches on themes of positive emotion and sense of hope: 'In the stitches of my images, I hope that the layers within each piece,... Read more

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  MODERN MASTERS

  Henry Moore | Ben Nicholson | Peter Blake | George Dannatt | Raoul Dufy 5 - 30 Aug 2022 Read more

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  The Cornish Potter

  Ceramics 2 - 30 Jul 2022 David Simon Contemporary is delighted to show, for the first time at the gallery, the work of Kit Andrews, AKA The Cornish Potter. Experimenting with a variety of vase and bottle forms, Kit's main body of work uses pit-firing and smoke-firing techniques. Working in stoneware clay, he creates beautifully balanced... Read more

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  Margaret Lovell

  Leaves of Bronze 2 Jul - 31 Aug 2022 Margaret Lovell, born in 1939 in Bristol, studied at West of England College of Art 1956-60, with Ernest Pascoe, then at Slade School of Art 1960-2 under A.H.Gerrard, where she won First Prizes for sculpture and figure studies. In 1962 she worked at the Morris Singer Foundry where she learned... Read more

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  Peter Ceredig-Evans

  The Shape of Time 2 Jul - 20 Aug 2022 Peter Ceredig-Evans, Bath art graduate, cornish painter, solo exhibition, abstract landscape Read more

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  POP ART

  Roy Lichtenstein | Keith Haring | Patrick Caulfield | Peter Blake | David Hockney 6 May - 11 Jun 2022 Pop Art; works on paper; collectible editions; original prints; Roy Lichtenstein; Keith Haring; David Hockney; Robert Indiana; Peter Blake; Patrick Caulfield; Allen Jones Read more

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  George Dannatt (1915 - 2009)

  Landscape Observations 12 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 George Dannatt (1915 - 2009) had a successful painting career, exhibiting with important Mayfair galleries. His work has been exhibited across Cornwall and London as well as Switzerland, France, Germany and the United States of America and his work can be found in the permanent collections of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Bournemouth University, Southampton City Art Gallery, and Royal Air Force, as well as other important public collections.
  
  
  George Dannatt was closely associated with Patrick Heron, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Terry Frost, Denis Mitchell, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Adrian Heath and John Wells. Dannatt was a connoisseur-turned-painter, with an extensive and impressive collection of works by the St Ives Group. In his later years he donated a considerable part of his collection to Pallant House Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery and Bournemouth University. Read more

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  In Arcadia

  12 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 Exploring the British landscape through a wide range of contemporary painters, this uplifting exhibition brings a refreshing vision from both gallery and guest artists. Read more

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  Impressions on Paper

  4 Feb - 1 Mar 2022 This is the gallery's eighth annual exhibition dedicated entirely to works of art on paper through painting, etching, engraving, woodcut and linocut prints. In anticipation of a major exhibition of Francis Bacon: Man & Beast at the Royal Academy from 29 January - 17 April, we are delighted to showcase... Read more

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  Mixed Winter Exhibition

  Daisy Cook; Julia Cooper; Isabel Coulton; Parastoo Ganjei; Andrew Lansley; Peter Lloyd-Jones; Mungo Powney; Yuta Segawa; Mike Service; Frances Watts 4 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Our popular and anticipated annual Mixed Winter Exhibition includes paintings, ceramics and bronze sculpture. Works may be taken at any point of the exhibition during December and January. EMAIL TO REQUEST CATALOGUE - gallery@davidsimoncontemporary.com Read more

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  Romi Behrens (1939-2019)

  A Lively Vision 4 - 27 Nov 2021 Romi Behrens lived in Cornwall and was associated with many eminent St Ives painters. A semi-figurative painter, she found any household object as suitable a subject as the Cornish landscape for exploring her technique. This retrospective exhibition includes work from the 1980s through to the later years of her career. Read more

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  The School of Paris

  An exhibition of original works on paper by Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso 7 - 30 Oct 2021 Following a major exhibition of works on paper by Picasso earlier this summer, David Simon Contemporary presents an important collection of original, signed works by these Modern Masters, giving a unique opportunity to acquire museum-quality works throughout October. Exceptional drawings by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and Joan Miró are shown with rare, signed original linocuts, lithographs and etchings by Georges Braque, Salvador Dali,
  and Pablo Picasso. Alice Corbett, Alice Dallaglio, Lydia Corbett Read more

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  Ceramic Sculptures by Alice Corbett & Lydia Corbett

  7 - 30 Oct 2021 Lydia Corbett (née Sylvette David) was one of Picasso’s muses in the 1950s and is a painter in her own right. Her daughter, Alice Corbett is an established contemporary ceramicist. Especiallly, for this exhibition and for the very first time, these two artsists have merged their two art forms and... Read more

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  Jackie Philip

  A Colourist in the Caribbean 2 - 25 Sep 2021 A trip to Barbados for a few weeks last year turned into seven months of being stranded on the Caribbean island, partly due to Lockdown and partly to the fallout from the volcanic eruptions of La Soufriere on St Vincent. Jackie Philip set up a temporary studio to make good use of this time. She came to observe the abundance of nature in all its forms, from the tiniest dragonflies, to birds, fruit, flowers and mahogony trees to the expansive canopy of stars and moonlight overhead. The images that resulted are informed by a variety of cultures and traditions and her latest paintings are more expansive and filled with luminosity and colour.
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  The Cornish Path

  Julia Cooper | George Dannatt | Alice Mumford | Myles Oxenford | Neil Pinkett 2 - 31 Jul 2021 Whether native to Cornwall or having found themselves drawn to this peninsula like so many artists, this exhibition brings together five painters who capture the magical Atlantic light, through a mixture of figuration and hard-abstract work. Read more

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  Picasso and Sylvette

  1 - 30 May 2021 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) , A School of Paris painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer, who has had enormous influence on 20th Century art and worked in an unprecedented variety of styles. The Picasso family moved to Barcelona, when their son Pablo (born in Malaga) entered the School of Fine... Read more

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  ST IVES MODERNISTS

  Terry Frost RA | Patrick Heron | Denis Mitchell | Tony O'Malley | Tommy Rowe Robert Adams | William Scott RA George Dannatt | Romi Behrens | Christopher Wood 8 - 31 Oct 2020
  
  Featuring some of the most iconic names associated with the St Ives Movement, this exhibition showcases vibrant, original screenprints by Patrick Heron; rare works in glass and ceramics by Terry Frost; characteristic abstracted still life paintings by William Scott, works on paper by George Dannatt, Robert Adams and Tony O'Malley, sculpture by Denis Mitchell and Tommy Rowe and drawings by Christopher Wood.
  
  
  
  These artists were contemporaries, several of whom formed great friendships with each other and were very important and influential members of the St Ives Art Colony. Connecting these names with the later part of the 20th Century is a selection of paintings by the late Romi Behrens, who lived at Prussia Cove and had prominent exhibitions at the Newlyn Art Gallery and a number of London galleries during her lifetime. Behrens was also close friends with Heron and Frost. Moving in between figuration and abstraction this collection unites different explorations of coastal colour and Atlantic light that has attracted so many painters to this peninsula. Read more