Simon’s Bio

Simon Pritchard was born in 1961 in Orpington, Kent, a suburb of London. In his early twenties he painted for only a six month period encouraged by a ‘primal’ therapist. The imagery was tortured, the twisted shapes of a fragmented psyche, the beings depicted, convulsed in pain. After ‘dropping out’ of university, frustrated by what

Q & A – What’s your strongest memory of your childhood?

  What’s your strongest memory of your childhood? I remember the excitement of the anticipation of being seven years old, pulling back the paving stones of the path in our garden and discovering a new world, watching all the ants and worms, beetles and snails, living, eating, working, playing, hunting, hiding and sexing. A mirror

Q & A – Describe a real-life situation that inspired you?

Describe a real-life situation that inspired you? For three summer holidays when I was aged 9, 10, 11 my parents took the family to Tenby in Wales for our summer holidays, each time renting the same house in the harbour there called ‘Down Below’ – a lovely house right on the beach itself next to

Q & A with Simon – What themes do you pursue?

I paint Goddesses, breasts, beasts of earth, sky and ocean, vaginas and flowers, and a love invisible. I paint the rhythms of cruelty, the sighing of the sea, unspeakable pain transfigured into bliss, and a sky of longing that stretches to infinity. The canvas sings a mantra, my paintbrush chants her Name, the One Divine

Q & A with Simon – Explain what you do in 100 words

I wake up slowly, I kneel at the canvas and crawl, I search for a meaning, I search for a light, I breathe and I wrestle with image and form, I make some marks and a few clear lines, and I smudge and distort to create some confusion, I piece it together like a puzzle

Q & A with Simon – Why Art?

Art is food for the soul. Art eats into the soul. Art is soul. An artist is a soul singer. When the artist sings the body quivers and the hairs stand up on the back of the neck. Art is also blues. When the artist weeps the world weeps too. My Guru Adi Da says