Simon Taylor is a British realist painter whose work explores light, surface, memory and perception through carefully constructed images of overlooked subjects. Working from photographic references, his paintings translate ordinary objects, architecture and figures into quiet, atmospheric studies of presence, focus and materiality.

A graduate in Fine Art Painting from Manchester Metropolitan University (1994), he has spent more than three decades developing a disciplined painting practice rooted in observation, technical control and the slow refinement of a distinctive visual language.

His current body of work, 'Our Lost Future', is a series of paintings exploring and celebrating the optimism, ambition and promise embodied in post-war visions of tomorrow. Inspired by archival photographs, artists' impressions and found imagery, the series reimagines the civic spaces of post-war Britain as places shaped by hope, imagination and the belief that the future could be better than the present.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions in London, Manchester, Southport and Huddersfield, and group exhibitions across the UK, Dublin, Milan, Brussels, Utrecht, Zurich and the United States. His paintings are held in public and private collections, and he has received several awards, including the Winsor & Newton Painting Award at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Sefton Open Art Prize, and an Honourable Mention at the International FiKVA Awards. He has also been shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize.