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Artist Statement:
About the paintings of Simon
Blackwood
The property of beauty is to
shine.
Its' light extends infinitely
both inwardly and outwardly.
It is both overwhelming and
inspiring and whatever it
illuminates is consumed as it
is also created by it.
In short, beauty is not
partial.
I have chosen to follow a
spiritual orientation toward
all things I do.
The road and the destination
in this journey is the love of
beauty.
(A statement inspired by the
writings of Muhyiddin Ibn
Arabi and Jelaleddin Rumi.)
Painting is a metamorphosis
from base elements into an
image of another reality
beyond those original
elements. It can allude to
sublime ideals through subject
matter or by the means of the
juxtaposition of colour, shape
and form. At best it reveals
the highest aspirations of man
striving to praise the gift of
intelligence, love of beauty
and life itself.
Paintings can recall or remind
us by illusory means; they may
also point towards something
beyond the material object of
the ‘tableau’ hanging on a
wall.
The paintings represented here
also attempt, without
abstraction, to point beyond
the subject matter, alluding
to the hidden, in the world of
man, that gives rise to his
creativity. ...
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Simon Blackwood Biography:
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Age
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62
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
One Absolute Being |
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| Education |
Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
light
Rumi
Ibn' Arabi |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Simon Anthony James Blackwood, born 1948
* 1965/67 Colchester School of Art
* 1967/70 Coventry School of Art
* 1970/71 worked in London as assistant to Mike Sandle (sculptor) and Barbara Reis (Art historian) on her book on WM Turner.
* 1971/72 Studied at the Academy for Continuous Education under John G. Bennett. URL: www.gurdjieff.org/bennett2.htm
and besharapublications.org.uk/Bennett.html
* There met Gerald Wilde (Bloomsbury set) cared for him for a number of years and was in touch with him until his death in 1986
URL www.millineryworks.co.uk/pages/argal_Wilde2.htm and
www.theoctobergallery.com/Wilde-press-list.htm
* 1972/80 Founder member of the Beshara Design Centre, The Industrial Buildings Preservation Trust and Rotherhythe Workshops Ltd., in London. Raised funds and organised the conversion of a group of Docklands Warehouses for the purpose of artists and designers studios and as a centre for Dance and the Performing Arts. In 1976 The Riverside Dance Centre opened there with the first performance of Leonnide Massines' ballet 'The Song of the Reed' based on the opening Stanza of Jelaleddin Rumi's Mathnawi.
Rumi URL www.indranet.com/potpourri/poetry/rumi/rumi.html
and www.rumisociety.org/AboutRumi.html
* 1976 Studied at the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education in Gloucestershire.
* 1976/78 Worked at the BSIEE and travelled extensively in Europe and the near east.
* 1979/80 Attended the 2nd course at the Beshara School in Scotland. Afterwards ran a successful restaurant in Oxford.
* 1981 Moved to the Scottish Borders to set up a studio/gallery and a picture conservation business.
* 1988 - 98 Establishes a new studio overlooking the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.
* 1989 Commissioned to live in Provence to work on a series of seven paintings for the interior of the recently restored Chateau du Tourreau, Vaucluse.
* 2008 Built Eco-studio in the Scottish Borders.
One-man Exhibitions
1985 Dundas Gallery, Carlisle - 'Bus-stop' series; 1986 Netherbow Arts Centre, Carlisle - 'Aquatic Light' series;1988 – 2000 permanent exhibition at Kingham House, Cotswolds; 1989 Anthony Mould Ltd, New Bond Street, London - 'the Beauties of the Bosphorus' series; 1991 Micheal Parkin Fine Art Ltd, Motcombe Street, London - oils and pastels; 1992 William Hardy Gallery, Glasgow; 1992 Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Oxon.; 1993 Kusav Arts - Istanbul, Turkey; 1994 Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Oxon.; 1996 Cynthia Bourne Gallery, Cork St. London; 2006 Foss Fine Arts, London; 2009 Art Amatoria, Edinburgh.
Many group shows in Scotland, England and Istanbul.
Some representative Collections:
The Fleming Collection, Nomura International, Breakthrough Technologies, The Sabanci family Corporation (Turkey), Mr & Mrs Dobbs-Higginson (Provence, France), Mr & Mrs William Mellen (France), Mr & Mrs Nicholas Ward (UK), Mr Peter Webster (NY City), Mr S. Farrell (Boston USA), Ms. Halide Kasan (Colorado USA), Mr Sohei Kurita (Tokio Japan), Mr & Mrs R. Waddington (Ardeche France), Ms. S Karaaslan (Istanbul Turkey), Mr & Mrs A. Buchan (Scotland), Her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Mrs Miwa (Tokio).
Extensive Photographic Records of Paintings with the Witt Library, London.
Web Site
www.simonblackwood.com
Email
simonblackwood@btconnect.com
Telephone
01450 870870
Studio Address
wells old lodge, bedrule, nr hawick, roxburgh, TD98TD
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