Simon Taylor Paintings

Simon Taylor is a British photorealist/hyperrealist painter whose work explores light, surface, texture and perception through carefully constructed images of overlooked subjects. Working from photographic references, his paintings translate ordinary objects 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 paintings are not direct reproductions of photographs, but carefully reconstructed images in which subtle shifts in focus, tone and surface slow the act of looking.

He produces a limited number of portrait commissions each year, approached with the same attention to atmosphere, structure and restraint that characterises his still life paintings, seeking a balance between likeness, presence and observation.

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 and the Sefton Open Art Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and received an Honourable Mention at the International FiKVA Awards.




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Simon Taylor is a British photorealist/hyperrealist painter whose work explores light, surface, texture and perception through carefully constructed images of overlooked subjects. Working from photographic references, his paintings translate ordinary objects 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 paintings are not direct reproductions of photographs, but carefully reconstructed images in which subtle shifts in focus, tone and surface slow the act of looking. He produces a limited number of portrait commissions each year, approached with the same attention to atmosphere, structure and restraint that characterises his still life paintings, seeking a balance between likeness, presence and observation. 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 and the Sefton Open Art Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and received an Honourable Mention at the International FiKVA Awards.