Simon Carter

I walk and draw on the local Essex marshes. I carry with me A4 paper and a tin of graphite sticks and crayons. I want to respond quickly to things seen, often returning to the same spot month after month, seeing what comes to light, hoping for the unexpected.

In the studio the drawings are examined and dissected and, in a real sense, become the subject of the paintings. Painting is a long process of improvised try-outs, putting something up for examination, covering it over, repeating, waiting for the moment that something happens and starts to speak.

Biography
Simon Carter was born in Essex in 1961. He has a studio on the Essex coast and makes weekly drawing walks along the seawalls into the local marshes and backwaters. This minimal edge-landscape is the source material for the initial drawings and, in the studio, the paintings.

Solo exhibitions include The SEA Foundation, Netherlands, Messum’s, London and Firstsite, Essex. 

Group shows include Newcastle Contemporary Art, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska, Norwich Castle, National Museum of Poland, Gdansk, Iasi Palace of Culture, Romania and Yantai Museum, China. 

Work in museum collections including Abbot Hall, Rugby Art Gallery, Swindon Art Gallery, Falmouth Art Gallery and the University of Essex. Recently work has entered museum collections in China and USA, including the Yale Centre for British Art.