Allegory of Deposition
Spanish Boot
Figures, Sun, Hat and Moon
Simon Klein lives and paints in Richmond, Greater London. He graduated from the Slade School of Art with a B.A. Hons in 1982, and in 1997, gained a M.A. in Contemporary Fine Art Practice at Kingston University.
Throughout his career Simon has been a prolific artist and has exhibited regularly. In 2017 his self-portrait was bought for The Ruth Borchard Collection. His work was shortlisted for the Chaiya Art Awards 2018 (Oxo Tower, London) and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours 2018 (Mall Galleries, London). He exhibited at Jacqueline du Pré Music Building St Hilda’s College, Oxford, in July 2018.
Simon Klein
One Paved Court Art Space and Studio
Just passing through is a group of Simon's drawings and paintings made during lockdown, on display at Inside Out: Summer Window 2020 in Richmond, Surrey from 30 June – 19 July. In these works, Simon explores themes of lovers; couples and figures in a state of becoming.
My wife mourns a colleague
Simon Klein, June 2020
The desire to wail is met by her pillow
The psalms pass from grief to praise
One takes despair to chisel out a dark poetry
Languid shapes coalesce into shapes of light
Grace turns this darkness into a kind of brilliance
Happy / sad
Just passing through.
White Tee Shirt
This is Simon's third exhibition at One Paved Court. Following their successful 2018 show Simon and his son the sculptor Guillaume Klein returned to the gallery in October, 2019, showcasing a range of new oil paintings, pastels and sculptures in their exhibition Structured Through Movement .
The making of their work is fostered by the movement of their tools and the process of manipulating materials. Whether in the two-dimensional or the three-dimensional, these works invite their viewers to contemplate the relationships between sculpture and movement, both figurative and abstract.
Simon & Guillaume Klein: Imagined Bodies, Imagined Spaces
Music
Cat, Simon's new song and animated video is the first single from his forthcoming album Will You Marry Me.
Ah at last I was just beginning to despair of finding something I liked enough to be kind to in a review when this bountiful in bounce beauty came into my email box; a song that flounces with a fine subtle rockabilly beat, the kind of song that one twists to in their kitchen whilst waiting for the kettle to boil. And did you notice I wrote song and not track for it has lyrics and melody and everything. It is a song you can both dance to and stroke your chin to: hurrah!
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