Born in Macclesfield in Cheshire in1955, Simon Pooley trained as an architect in London, qualifying in1980. He practised in Sheffield for twelve years before moving, with his wife Hilary, to Cornwall in 1992 to paint full-time.

He works from a studio near Lamorna in Penwith just 8 miles from Lands End and shows in several galleries in the UK including London and several Cornish galleries. He has also shown abroad.

Selected Exhibitions

Featured Artist Mid Cornwall Galleries (annually)  1995 -2000
Members Shows Newlyn Art gallery 1997 -2003
“Critics Choice” Exhibitions Newlyn Art Gallery 1997- 2004
Two Man Show Marsden Contemporary
Art London May 1996
Three Man Shows Rainyday Gallery Penzance Nov 1996
Nov 1998
Solo Show Out of the Blue Marazion   July 1997
“Then and Now” Exhibition David Messum Cork St. London   Feb 1998
Group Show Groucho Club Soho London   Jan 1999
Three Man Show Great Atlantic Map Works
Gallery, St Just, Cornwall   April 1999
Solo Show Stour Gallery Warwicks   Sept 1999
The Cornish Show City Gallery London EC2   Nov 1999
Gallery Artists Show City Gallery London EC2   Feb 2000
Three Man Show Great Atlantic Gallery   March 2001
Three Man Show Innocent Fine Art, Bristol   May 2001
Solo Show Great Atlantic Gallery   Sept 2001
Art Fair Thompsons Gallery London   Oct 2001
Solo Show Dick the Dog, Penzance   May 2002
Solo Show The Stour Gallery, Warwicks   Oct 2002
Group Show ‘Weather Report’ Newlyn Gallery         2003
Solo Show The Stour Gallery, Warwicks   May 2004
Solo Show Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn   May 2005
2 man show Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah   Sept 2005
Solo Show The Stour Gallery, Warwicks   Sept 2006
2 Man Show Rainyday Gallery Penzance   Nov 2006
Solo Show Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance   May 2008
Group Show ‘Cornwall and the S.W.’ Stour Gallery   July 2008
Group Show ‘Peninsular’ Edgar Modern Gallery Bath  July 2008
Solo Show The Stour Gallery, Warwicks   Oct 2008
Two man show Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn   July 2009
Two man show Cornwall Contemporary Gallery Penzance   Oct 2010
Solo Show The Stour Gallery, Warwicks   March 2011
Two-man show Cornwall Contemporary  Gallery Penzance  May 2013

Group show Adam Gallery, Bath, Nov 2014

Solo show The Stour Gallery, Warwicks  March 2015

Solo show Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, St Ives  June 2016

Two man show Adam Gallery Bath  June 2016

Solo show  Stour Gallery, Warwicks   May 2017

Two person show  Tremenheere Gallery, (upper gallery), Penzance   March 2018

Two person show  Tremenheere Gallery, (lower gallery), Penzance   June  2018

Three person show Cornwall Contemporary Gallery  October 2022

Three person show Cornwall Contemporary Gallery  October 2023

Publications

Inside Cornwall.  In the Studio, 2009

‘Behind the Canvas’ Sarah Brittain and Simon Cook
‘1975 to 2005. Art Colony in Transition’ Peter Davies
Galleries Magazine, April 2013

Cornwall Today, ‘Joie de Vivre’, August 2016