Simon Taylor Paintings

Simon Taylor is a British photorealist painter whose work explores light, surface, memory and perception through carefully constructed images. 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 painting practice rooted in close observation and technical precision, exploring how photographic images can be translated, reconstructed and transformed through paint.

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, including exhibitions at the Royal Society of British Artists, ING Discerning Eye and Saatchi Gallery. 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.




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Simon Taylor is a British photorealist painter whose work explores light, surface, memory and perception through carefully constructed images. 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 painting practice rooted in close observation and technical precision, exploring how photographic images can be translated, reconstructed and transformed through paint. 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, including exhibitions at the Royal Society of British Artists, ING Discerning Eye and Saatchi Gallery. 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.