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London Art Fair 2026
Long and Ryle Gallery will be representing Simon Casson at this year’s London Art Fair. London’s Business Design Centre in Islington. Further details on tickets and location can be found HERE Simon Casson 2026 Lowl and Libbets oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm ( 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 )
Considering Art Podcast – Bob Chaundy
Simon Casson is internationally acclaimed for his meticulous paintings based on the Renaissance style but with a modern twist. In this episode, he talks about his African upbringing, how seeing a Renaissance work in the National Gallery as a child had a profound impact upon him, where his style of
Installation of The Floralia
Long & Ryle Gallery London Solo Exhibition 4 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4PX Opening Times Monday – Friday: 10.00am – 5.30pm : Saturday by appointment (please email gallery@long-and-ryle) Artfully cavorting upon an imagined classical Roman stage, the characters of Simon Casson’s paintings play out the Ludi Florales, games with a smeary
From rural somerset to romania’s capital
Simon Casson’s paintings can be found in high-end city hotels and the collection of HRH King Charles III, but the former artist in residence at Forde Abbey continues to be inspired by his countryside home Emma Bovill Somerset Life December 2025 This year is a milestone one for contemporary figurative
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Country Life Arts & Antiques review of Simon Casson’s solo exhibition ‘Floralia’ paintings at Long & Ryle. Fertile works: Roman traditions are being revived in Simon Casson’s glorious ‘Floralia’ paintings. Carla Passino Arts & Antiques Country Life October 29 2025 issue. It was 173BC and Rome wasn’t doing well. Hail,
British Art Fair 2025
Simon Casson will be represented by Long and Ryle Gallery at this year’s British Art Fair. The Gallery will be showing a preview of the some the work shown at the upcoming solo at the gallery in October. Long Ryle will be on Stand 27. Further details can be found
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The Floria
Long & Ryle Gallery
Solo Exhibition
3 November 2025 – 9 January 2026
Artfully cavorting upon an imagined classical Roman stage, the characters of Simon Casson’s paintings play out the Ludi Florales, games with a smeary licentiousness, scattering beans and cavorting with hare and deer, such symbols of fertility and abundance, all in the name of the goddess Flora and the festival in her honour, braying to her for botanical protection.
Floral wreaths abound and nudity rules, broken and banded with swathes of colour, juxtaposing the customary white purity. Within the confines of the Circus Maximus farces were wildly acted out, fleshy and overtly sexual. Concubines musing upon the curated memento mori. Stepping over the threshold of normality, phantasmal gladiatorial displays form a backdrop to the cavorting courtesans who fiercely embraced the proceeding as their own.
