Maay-Geams
Simon Casson
Maay-Geams
2023
Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm. 39.37 x 47.24 "
RECENS NUNTIUM
Long and Ryle Gallery will be representing Simon Casson at the London Art Fair 2023
After the…
January 06, 2023
Simon Casson is en hedendaagse kunstschilder die internationale bekendheid geniet.
Zijn…
December 21, 2022
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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…
Art Critic The Spectator 2009It 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…
Director, DTZ investors 2018Fantastical landscape, combining the English pastoral scene with an almost theatrical metaphysical back drop, lies behind the constructed situation of figure and still-life.
Essay from the Smeech and Hrain series 2012The Handling is immensely skilful and witty, the editing of paint-mark finely judged.
Andrew Lambirth The Spectator 2009Holed 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…
The Independent 2000Simon Casson's paintings cross a cultural divide, uniting figurative art with the severity of abstract modernism.
The Week 1998Titles from classical mythology – such as Pelias's Journey – add a slightly mere dignity and depth; but for all the fashionable ambiguity, these paintings with their rich colours and surfaces,…
Art Critic The Week 1998Interestingly, 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.
Art Critic Shanghai Talk 2008He 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.
Art Critic Commercial Appeal Memphis 2005It 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…
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