Simon Turner’s work sets out to explore a fascination with the uncanny or a negative aesthetic that acknowledges an engagement with the Modernists, yet is based on an intense personal narrative, using as inspiration the images and forms of sea life found washed up on beaches around Penzance in Cornwall.
Simon Turner’s paintings are an imaginary response to the vast, three-dimensional and largely unexplored spaces which form the oceans and seas of our planet. This alien environment is an apt place to explore his interests in the inventiveness of imagination and fantasy when faced with the unknown or fear of the unknown.
Sea monsters and mermaids are obvious examples.
Working in both oil and acrylic, Turner’s canvases offer a collision of the real and unreal, the past and present – his works invite through the immediate pleasure of form and colour, delicacy and draftsmanship, the deeper symbolism of the essentially closed and private world of the artist’s mind.
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