British Art Fair news edited by Alex Leith Simon Casson went to the National Gallery, aged ten, and stood in front of a Titian. He hasn’t been the same since. That formative experience in his childhood – he went on to study at the RA and St Martin’s, and become an internationally renowned painter who […]
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Exhibition review at Gallerie Guildo Romero London and Paris Julien Verhaeghe Art Critic Paris 2015 Guido Romero Pierini and Associate Remanence join with Darren Baker Gallery to present “Reminiscences”, a new exhibition of artists united by their exploration of the fundamentals of painting, through its early myths and histories. This reflects back to the beginning
Extract from the main article page 54 The Spectator 2012 Andrew Lambirth At Long & Ryle, Somerset dialect and folk culture infuse Simon Casson’s more usual classical imagery. Casson (born 1965) is a master of the baroque fantasy, uniting the fruit or flower still like and allegorical portraiture of Old Master paintings with the squeegee
Gallery de Bellefeuille Montreal 2010 Sheridan Casson Reality can be a harsh bedfellow, the sense of the here and now, the known, discovered and the hard won, perhaps unwanted truth. The world becomes smaller and all accessible, at a touch of plastic, knowledge is with us. Religion is in this present century, as in centuries
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