Sight of a Humpback Whale
Simon sees the relationship between his art practice and art historical research as 'sometimes overlapping, sometimes running parallel but never tangential to one another'. He writes: "The way in which we choose to remember a particular place has always interested me. I find that I have strong images in my head of certain places that I have never been to; images that come partly from films, photographs, paintings and books but also from the imagination. The difference between the co-existing internal and external realities of landscape is one of the themes of my most recent work. Watercolour seems ideally suited to this work, acting as a kind of metaphor for the layered, diffuse and translucent nature of memory itself."
