Simon is a Manchester based artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the Uk and in Europe. His work has been purchased by many private purchasers and galleries for their permanent collections.

Using various mediums, including photography and painting, the work is part of a continuing project started in 1993 based around ideas of perception; questioning the validity and source of received visual information.

His latest collection of work is a series of paintings tiled Memory Stills. The title 'Memory Still' is used as these images are indeed derived from film stills. They are painted traditionally onto canvas producing images like a bad/blurred photograph reminiscent of a memory that is, without detail but still recognisable.

Film stars have become contemporary icons in a similar way to religious icons of the past. Their films tell the viewer a story and in turn comment upon and shape our society's morals in a similar way to religious paintings. The processes of blurring and painting the subject transforms a once celluloid image into the language of paint, creating a final mnemonic image that comments on our modern visual history and society but has reference to the effects of religious iconography.

Simon’s prices start at approx. £150 for a Limited Edition Print and go up to approx. £2,500 for a 220cm x 100cm acrylic on canvas painting.

A Selection Simon's works can now be purchased as limited edition prints.

Simon Taylor Limited Edition Prints

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