Following the success of David Simon Contemporary’s 2021 Picasso show, the gallery launches ‘Tête á Tête’ on 5th September, featuring works on paper by Marc Chagall; Le Corbusier; Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The exhibition includes a mixture of drawings and original lithographs and etchings, accompanied by a small selection of heads painted in impasto oils by Peter Clossick. The works by Henri Matisse are largely from the late 1930s through to the early 1950s and focussed on his strong use of single-line drawing. Dreamlike compositions by Chagall bring a strong colour element to the exhibition and further uses of original printmaking are demonstrated by Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso, who pushed the boundaries by exploring and creating new techniques.
Peter Clossick is an established British artist who studied at Camberwell School of Art and Goldsmiths College during the early 1970s and has been engaged in professional fine art practice since. He is a member and Past President of The London Group and a member of the New English Art Club under the Federation of British Artists. Peter Clossick became friends with the painter, the late Frank Auerbach, through the model Joan Yardley-Mills, whom both artists frequently painted. Auerbach was an admirer of Clossick’s work. Peter Clossick exhibits regularly both in the UK and abroad.
This exhibition gives an insightful overview of the significant period which formed what is known as School of Paris and includes works that are accessible to a wider market of collectors. The exhibition runs at David Simon Contemporary until 28 September.
Lloyd Durling, based in London, had his first international solo show at Golden, Chicago, USA, in 2010. He has exhibited in London and widely throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. In 2017 he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Lloyd's works are held in public and private collections worldwide, including the Whitworth Art Gallery and Museum, Progressive collection, America and Nomura Bank, Japan.
Topographical themes are central to Durling’s practice and explored through continuing walking projects. These serve as opportunities to gather diverse source material through physical and emotional interactions with whichever environment chosen to traverse. “It amounts to a kind of urban or rural wandering where the information gathered is reinterpreted or reimagined.” Durling explains, “These feed into a deep connection with place and landscape, mystic arrangements of stone, wall paintings, light and shadow, turf mazes, strange geometries of ancient worship and forgotten histories – all these elements find a way into the work.”
Heath Hearn lived in Jersey for a time and is now based in south east Cornwall. He is inspired by his local landscape and the coastal position of his studio. Often inspired by painters from the British art movement, his influences can be noted as he creates images with his own unique and distinctive approach. Heath Hearn exhibits both nationally and internationally, his work is also held as part of the UK's national art collection through the Jersey Museum. Represented by David Simon Contemporary since 2025.
Julia Cooper's studio overlooks a Cornish harbour estuary on the south coast 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 subjects in her still life paintings jostle amongst themselves in various bucolic arrangements of flattened perspective and simplistic narrative with softened palettes. Julia regards the works of the St Ives Artists particularly that of William Scott and Patrick Heron as having influenced her own work.
Julia has been represented by David Simon Contemporary since 2014, where she has had five solo exhibitions in addition to participating in numerous group shows. Her work has been exhibited across Cornwall, Bristol and London. She studied Fine Art and Interior Design and worked on a number of commissioned paintings for The National Trust.
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