Simon Pooley

Simon Pooley remembers his first day at school as if it were yesterday. “I had to paint a train – that was the first task I was ever set,” says the Macclesfield-born, Cornwall-based artist. “I couldn’t believe it. I thought: … Continued

Click on the image for the full picture.  I’m still working on the interrelated themes of flight and movement and how dancing can incorporate both.  This is a mixed media study on paper (30x20cm).

Click on the image for the full picture.  These were a few preparatory marks for a new dancer drawing.  But I decided that the expressive gestures worked in their own right, and that there is no need to explain the … Continued

Feeling depleted after a busy year so far.  But here’s a new drawing.  Keeping things moving.