Forthcoming
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Beyond Form
Julia Cooper | John Croft CBE | David Ralph Simpson | John Taylor | Barbara Hepworth | Howard Hodgkin RA 3 - 24 May 2025 Julia Cooper; John Croft CBE ; David Ralph Simpson; John Taylor; Barbara Hepworth; Howard Hodgkin RA;
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FOR THERE SHE WAS
Centenary Exhibition of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Through the Eyes of 12 Artists 3 Jun - 12 Jul 2025 LONDON: 3 – 8 June 2025 SOMERSET: 14 June – 12 July 2025 Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, David Simon Contemporary has invited twelve contemporary visual artists to respond to the novel. This captivating exhibition of paintings, sculpture and ceramics includes work by... Read more -
Mixed Summer Exhibition
Gallery Artists 19 Jul - 30 Aug 2025 Read more -
Romi Behrens (1939 - 2019)
A Retrospective 6 - 27 Sep 2025 Romi Behrens was born in Wiltshire, and moved to Cornwall in 1959, where she lived for the rest of her life. A multi-talented and thoroughly creative person, she was a talented visual artist as well as violinist. She was a long-term member of the Newlyn Society of Artists since the... Read more
Past
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IMPRESSIONS ON PAPER
Virginia Bridge | Lydia Corbett née Sylvette David | Hugo Grenville | Steven Hubbard | Alvert Irvin RA | Anita Klein | Henry Moore | Ben Nicholson | Pablo Picasso | Barbara Rae RA | Michael Rothenstein RA 1 Feb - 1 Mar 2025 This is the gallery's eleventh annual exhibition dedicated entirely to works of art on paper through painting, etching, engraving, woodcut and linocut prints. We are delighted to showcase some of our main contemporary gallery artists, alongside a group of original, signed works on paper by a number of major artists... Read more -
Mixed Winter Exhibition
Louise Balaam | Eileen Cooper RA | Fred Cuming RA Howard Hodgkin RA | Victoria Jinivizian NEAC | Peter Lloyd-Jones Pádraig MacMiàdhachain | Sarah Manolescue ROI | Jackie Philip Mike Service | Frances Watts | ceramics by Yuta Segawa 6 Dec 2024 - 27 Jan 2025 Our popular and much 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. Please note that the gallery will be open until 3pm Christmas Eve. We will then be closed until Friday 10th January... Read more -
Lydia Corbett at 90: A Life in Painting
with works on paper by Pablo Picasso 1 - 30 Nov 2024 The latest exhibition of paintings by Lydia Corbett, née Sylvette David, last living muse of Picasso. A selection of works on paper by Pablo Picasso are shown alongside this exhibition. Read more -
Alice Corbett & Lydia Corbett
Ceramics 1 - 30 Nov 2024 Collaborative Ceramics by Alice Corbett, with drawn elements by Lydia Corbett. The exhibition includes the collaborative achievements with her daughter, Alice Corbett, working together in ceramics. Lydia transfers images of memories and her imagination in a direct way by working with her hands, using the sense of touch and feel... Read more -
Modern British Art
GEORGE DANNATT | ROY TURNER DURRANT | ELISABETH FRINK RA | BARBARA HEPWORTH RA | DAVID HOCKNEY RA | HOWARD HODGKIN RA | HENRY MOORE | VICTOR PASMORE | EDOUARDO PAOLIZZI RA 5 - 26 Oct 2024 This exhibition includes an exciting body of paintings, and original printmaking by some of the most significant names in 20th Century Modern British Art. FOLLOWING FORM The exhibition is accompanied by paintings from two contemporary artists, VIRGINIA BRIDGE and JOHN TAYLOR, and bronze sculptures by NEIL WOOD. Read more -
Neil Wood
Bronze Sculpture 7 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 We are delighted to be showing, for the first time, bronze sculptures by Neil Wood , an established artist with many years experience as a sculptor and art lecturer. The work of Neil Wood has a distinctive and modernist approach, with which he explores the human condition in the 21st... Read more -
Summer Exhibition
Julia Cooper | Peter Ceredig-Evans | Parastoo Ganjei | Frances Watts 9 Aug - 28 Sep 2024 Throughout August and September the gallery shows a Summer Exhibition featuring work by four selected artists - Julia Cooper, represented by DSC for ten years, presents her latest semi-abstract still lifes and abstract compositions responding to the Cornish coast; Peter Ceredig-Evans, who hails from Cornwall, is a contemporary painter now... Read more -
Ben Lowe | Sarah Manolescue ROI | Lawrence Quigley | Stephen Page
14 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Ben Lowe has, in this latest collection of paintings, explored three themes relating to loss, acceptance and resolution. The paintings themselves are both the process and a product of his personal experience. We are delighted to introduce, for the first time, paintings by Sarah Manolescue ROI. With a focus on... Read more -
Sarah Manolescue ROI
14 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 We are delighted to show for the first time, paintings by Sarah Manolescue, an observational artist with an unrelenting fascination for light and its effects. Working in oil and predominantly plein air, Sarah prefers to work on small boards and in one session, so to preserve a freshness and immediacy... Read more -
Stephen Page
Sculpture 14 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Stephen Page is a sculptor working in bronze. His sculptures focus on the essence of the creature; excess information is stripped away and the shapes are honed down and simplified creating a pure smooth skin in order to observe form and space with the utmost clarity. This economy of means... Read more -
Henry Moore
Works on Paper 14 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) is one of the most significant British artists of the twentieth century. He was born on 30 July 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire, the son of a miner and the seventh of eight children. He was injured in World War One, as a soldier, in 1917... Read more -
Cercare la Luce
Gareth Edwards RWA | Diana Matthews FRSA | Sue Wales 3 May - 8 Jun 2024 Gareth Edwards, a painter who exhibits internationally and is based in St Ives, has slowly evolved in recent years from abstraction toward a more specifically landscape-based approach. The paintings remain open and free with abstracted elements but are now more spatial, more elemental and evoke emotional weathers and poetic atmospheres... Read more -
Jane Sheppard
ceramics 3 May - 29 Jun 2024 Come and hear Jane Sheppard talk about her work at the gallery on Saturday 8th June at 3.30pm. We are delighted to show ceramics for the first time by Jane Sheppard through May and June. Sheppard trained at Bath Spa University and became a full-time lecturer in Art and Design.... Read more -
Newly Sown
Andrew Lansley | Mick Lindberg | Mungo Powney | John Taylor 7 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 Andrew Lansley , winner of Bath Society of Artists' 'David Simon Contemporary Award' 2017, works in egg tempera, focusing on landscape and marine subjects. Lansley is the current Chairman of Bath Society of Artists. He won the 2016 Royal Watercolour Society Award and has exhibited at the Royal Academy, RWA... Read more -
Impressions on Paper
Virginia Bridge; Maynard Hales; Luke Hannam; Barbara Hepworth; Howard Hodgkin RA; Anita Klein PPRE; Ben Nicholson; William Scott RA 2 - 27 Feb 2024 This is the gallery's tenth annual exhibition dedicated entirely to works of art on paper through painting, etching, engraving, woodcut and linocut prints. We are delighted to showcase some of our main contemporary gallery artists, alongside a group of original, signed works on paper by a number of major artists... Read more -
Mixed Winter Exhibition
Lydia Corbett; Parastoo Ganjei; Steven Hubbard; Deborah Jackson; Victoria Jinivizian; Sara Ingleby-MacKenzie; Neil Murison; Mike Service; David Ralph Simpson; Frances Watts & The Cornish Potter 1 Dec 2023 - 29 Jan 2024 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 -
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 -
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 -
Modern British Art
David Hockney RA | Howard Hodgkin RA | Brian Rice | Jennifer Durrant RA | Henry Moore 12 Oct - 25 Nov 2023 Read more -
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 -
Summer
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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 -
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 -
Spring Mixed Exhibition
Andrew Lansley, Diana Matthews, Alice Mumford, Myles Oxenford, Jackie Philip 7 Apr - 6 May 2023 Read more -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
MODERN MASTERS
Henry Moore | Ben Nicholson | Peter Blake | George Dannatt | Raoul Dufy 5 - 30 Aug 2022 Read more -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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,
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
