SIMON CASSON’S TURBULENT CANVASES WRENCH OLD-MASTER CLASSICISM INTO THE GRAFFITI-GUN CHAOS OF THE 21ST CENTURY. Jay Merrick – The Independent 2000 Simon Casson is a gifted painter who finds himself, in his early 30s, at the crossroads of innovation and success that has made much of a sensually schizoid worm in the bud. His large […]
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Exhibition reviews, Tantalus
Simon Casson’s paintings cross a cultural divide, uniting figurative art with the severity of abstract modernism. Casson, currently enjoying his first solo London exhibition, trained at the Royal Academy.Using a muted palette evocative of 17th-century masters, he creates monumental paintings, in which half-draped neoclassical, Baroque figures – Venus, Danae, Circe and Penelope – materialise from
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Exhibition reviews
Invited Artist Eye at Arts Review with reference to the Eldest of the Fates exhibition. Long and Ryle London. The Eldest of the Fates is the title painting of my next one-man exhibition in London, part of which then travels on to Holland. The painting had to be completed over the summer months, as although
