"I
remember walking around the show listening to what people were saying. I
began for the first time to understand what my paintings had become. The
people were telling me! People were being transported, the colors and
imagery were becoming a means of conveying the viewer into another
world, the miracle was happening. People were being hit right in their
emotional center."
-Simon Bull
The
second of four children, Simon’s flair for art was first noticed when he
won his first art competition at the age of six. Other childhood art
prizes were to follow, including several in his teenage years and a
national art students painting prize while he was at college.
At the age of
seven he was sent to boarding school in the North of England with his
elder brother. The next four years provided a heady cocktail of
experiences for an impressionable young mind. During his teens the
family moved to Hong Kong for several years. It was here that he first
encountered the art of the East where the beauty of Chinese brushwork
and where he held his first one-man exhibition at the age of eighteen.
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East of Eden
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Music can catch and reflect so many moods and emotions. When I come
into my studio I often browse through my music collection looking
for the sound that will be just right. Invariable I look for a piece
that will ease me into the day, something rich and something smooth.
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I was painting one day by an old water
mill, many years ago in the Himalayan Mountains. While I worked an
old school teacher approached me and talked enthusiastically about
books of poetry and literature. It turned out that he was a fan of
Shakespeare and when I asked him if he had ever been at Stratford
Upon Avon, he replied wistfully that he was able to travel only in
his dreams. I have often thought that the Stratford he traveled to
in his mind was in some ways more real than the actual place. Such
is the power of imagination; let it flight!.
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