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British Art Fair 2026

24 September 2026

Simon Casson will be represented by Long & Ryle Gallery at this year’s British Art Fair within the Saatchi Gallery on stand 27. Further details can be found HERE. Collectors Preview starts at 12pm to 9pm on 24th September. The fair will be open to Sunday 27th of September Saatchi Gallery

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Lowl and Libbets

London Art Fair 2026

5 January 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 )

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Considering Art Podcast – Bob Chaundy

5 January 2026

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

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OPSERVATIO

Flirtigig

oil on canvas

120 x 100 cm ( 47 1/4 x 39 1/4 ins)

 

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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