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
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