Simeon Stafford | Featured Artist

SIMEON STAFFORD Featured Artist

Whitewater Contemporary continues its 2021 Featured Artist series with new work by much loved and highly collected

painter

Simeon

Stafford,

in

a

must-see

exhibition for everyone who looks forward to the return of togetherness, leisure time, and existing shoulder to shoulder with our fellow human beings.

This new collection is inspired by the beautiful area around Padstow, Rock, Daymer Bay and Polzeath, and all the bustle and fun of a busy summer season on the Cornish coast. It also includes a special collection of paintings and pencil sketches inspired by Cornwall’s mining heritage.

Skipping Girl Painted Bronze Sculpture 30.5cm x 21.5cm x 21cm £2,500

Yo-Yo Girl Painted Bronze Sculpture 33cm x 16cm x 29.5cm £2,500

New Polzeath View

New Polzeath House

Oil on Board 39cm x 29cm £1,500

Oil on Board 39cm x 29cm £1,500

Polzeath Oil on Canvas 120cm x 98.5cm £7,000

Ships at Polzeath

Rock Sailing Club

Oil on Board 39cm x 29cm £1,500

Oil on Board 39cm x 29cm £1,500

Rock Oil on Board 59cm x 44.5cm £2,250

Polzeath Still Life Oil on Canvas 75cm x 59.5cm £3,000

Surfing at Polzeath Oil on Canvas 75cm x 59.5cm £3,000

Busy Day at Daymer Oil on Board 100cm x 49cm £3,500

Daymer Bay Oil on Board 101cm x 51cm £3,500

Beach Days at Polzeath Oil on Canvas 90cm x 70cm £4,250

Looking out to Stepper Oil on Canvas 100cm x 75cm £4,500

Padstow Harbour Oil on Canvas 79cm x 79cm £4,500

Porthilly Oil on Canvas 79cm x 79cm £4,500

Summer Fun Padstow Oil on Canvas 79cm x 79cm £4,500

View from the Window Oil on Canvas 79cm x 79cm £4,500

Observed characters, and people from Simeon’s own life appear many times in his work, and true Stafford fans can recognise them wherever they appear. “I go sketching on the beach” says Simeon “but I don’t have to do that. Sometimes I just see people and say, ‘I’m going to put you in one of my paintings!’. One of my most famous characters lives on St Michael’s Mount. ‘Ruby’, she’s called, and she’s twenty by now, but in my work she’s the little girl with pigtails”.

Of another character he tells “I had a party at my house once, and this woman came bouncing in with these strange hair extensions like the ears of a rabbit, and said ‘are you going to put me in one of your paintings?’ - and I did, that’s ‘Mrs. Rabbit’! And that’s me” he says, of a man in red and white trousers, “and that’s my mother” of a woman in a striped dress looking out to sea. Most distinctive perhaps, is his ‘handstand girl’, Aunt Dot, with Simeon’s beloved Jack Russell, Trixie, by her side. “In my early works there’s no dog” says Simeon, “but later I put Trixie beside Aunt Dot because I thought she looked lonely playing on her own”.

The dog, he clarifies, “is always on the left side, never on the right”.

Polzeath Summer Oil on Canvas 152cm x 122cm £10,000

Brae Hill Oil on Canvas 80cm x 80cm £4,500

Daymer to Brae Oil on Canvas 80cm x 80cm £4,500

Low Tide New Polzeath Oil on Canvas 80cm x 80cm £4,500

Surf Hire Polzeath Oil on Canvas 80cm x 80cm £4,500

From New Polzeath Oil on Canvas 80cm x 80cm £4,500

Trebarwith Strand Oil on Board 74cm x 49.5cm £2,250

Beach Day at Trebarwith Oil on Canvas 100cm x 80cm £5,500

Polzeath Regatta Oil on Canvas 99cm x 74.5cm £5,000

Newland Island, Polzeath Oil on Board 29cm x 39cm £1,500

Going Down Oil on Canvas 80cm x 101cm £5,500

Miner Oil on Board 38.5cm x 49cm £1,750

Hard at Work Oil on Board 40.5cm x 30.5cm £1,500

The Night Shift Oil on Board 79cm x 79cm £4,500

At The Face of the Mine Oil on Board 79cm x 79cm £4,500

Miners Cornwall Oil on Canvas 101cm x 80cm £5,500

Mining Cornwall Oil on Canvas 101cm x 80cm £5,500

Miners at Work

Puffing Bill

Oil on Board 43.5cm x 39.5cm £1,750

Oil on Board 40.5cm x 30.5cm £1,500

Busy Mine

Miners Underground

Oil on Board 59cm x 44.5cm £1,750

Oil on Canvas 74.5cm x 60cm £3,000

The P ar ad e , Pol ze a th , Co rn wa l l , P L 2 7 6 S R 01208 869301 | art@whitewatercontemporary.co.uk www.whitewatercontemporary.co.uk @Whitewatercontemporary