Simon Pooley

‘Iron Age Pond’ (100x120cm), is being hung now at The Porthminster Gallery in St Ives for their ‘New Horizons’ show which starts on Saturday.  It features an area, a stones-throw from the studio, which has an atmosphere that can only … Continued

More exploratory work with rooks on paper

I’ve been watching rooks going quietly about their business, and I’ve witnessed them in an altogether more frantic and raucous mood.  This 60x60cm painting, painted last week, definitely falls into the latter category.

A combination of an old theme with a new one.  Beehives have put in an appearance in my work since I saw a particularly handsome one in a clearing at one of my favourite haunts, St Loys Cove, some years … Continued