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Granta Summer issue 168 | Significant Other 2024

Significant Other

23 July 2024

Granta 168: Significant Other THE MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING The Team at Granta have selected Simon Casson’s painting Pelina’s Tourney 2003 as the cover for this years Summer issue. In Granta 168: Significant Other we consider the people who shape our sense of ourselves and reflect on the connections and

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Savoy Court wc2

5 April 2024

Article published by Savoy Court about the commissioned painting titled Savoyards April 2024. Royal Academy trained artist, Simon Casson was selected for his beautiful, rich, historical narratives. He spent time with the 7 Savoy Court stakeholder group discussing themes and ideas. “Historic Thames, statuesque tall ships, the river running through

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London Art Fair 2024

13 January 2024

New work at the London Art Fair of 2024. Long & Ryle Gallery will be representing Simon Casson at this years London Art Fair at Stand 46 from 17th 21st of January. The Art Fair is at the Business Design Center in Islington, London. Further information about this years Art

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Spirtty

oil on canvas

120 x 140 cm ( 47 1/4 x 55 1/8 ins) 2025

Casson is that rare beast, a painter who can command the skills more common to the ateliers of three centuries ago than to today, who yet disrupts his own facility in order to make an image…
Andrew Lambirth on the Thesmophoria show
Andrew Lambirth on the Thesmophoria showArt Critic The Spectator 2009
It looks absolutely fantastic, Its everything that we were hoping for. Simon has captured exactly what we were wanting for this space reflecting the history of the site whilst staying true to the…
Art Acumen
Art AcumenDirector, DTZ investors 2018
Fantastical landscape, combining the English pastoral scene with an almost theatrical metaphysical back drop, lies behind the constructed situation of figure and still-life.
Sheridan Casson
Sheridan CassonEssay from the Smeech and Hrain series 2012
Holed up in his Somerset manse, the artist Simon Casson has become as mythic as his paintings, described by the trendy New York interior designer Adam Tihany as "the Renaissance on…
Andrew LambirthAndrew Lambirth The Spectator 2009
Simon Casson's paintings cross a cultural divide, uniting figurative art with the severity of abstract modernism.
Jay MerrickThe Independent 2000
Interestingly, Casson's Daedala series is almost like a quilting of his knowledge - a patch of history there, a splash of Renaissance there, all overlaid with a hint of modernity.
Lucinda BredinArt Critic The Week 1998
He paints like a dream he is painting dreams — and you could, eat the luscious surface of his pictures with a spoon; one feels that there's nothing Casson could not do with a brush.
Ann BrodieArt Critic Shanghai Talk 2008
It is as though Titian has yielded up a canvas to Jackson Pollock or Asger Jorn. Indeed, we may remember that some of the more playful yet serious work of the Danish master consisted in, precisely…
Fredric KoeppelArt Critic Commercial Appeal Memphis 2005
The paint-handling has become less mechanical and more painterly, the squeegee giving way to the hand gesture, with a variety of brush and finger marks, dribbles and further areas of succulent,…
Andrew Lamberth on the Vur - Vore ExhibitionArt Review 2014

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