Exhibition review of Thesmorphoria at Frost and Reed gallery London Andrew Lambirth The Spectator 2009 At Frost & Reed, 2-4 King Street, St James’s, SW1 (until 30 September), is an exhibition of new paintings by Simon Casson (born 1965). Entitled Between Past and Present, The Thesmophoria Revealed, it is a show of luscious oils that takes […]

Exhibition review at Frost and Reed Gallery London Nicholas Usherwood Galleries London 2009 Top of the painting hierarchy in the 18th C. Britain, history painting has suffered a more or less radical decline into oblivion ever since. The Glasgow Painters of the 80s, Campbell et al, did something to turn genre around and, over the

Exhibition review Jay Merrick The Independent 2009 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 LSD”. Casson is one of the most highly skilled painters of his generation, yet the sheer lushness