Artist : Simon Allen
Title : White Moon Field
Medium : 12 ct white gold leaf on carved wood
Dimensions : 100 cm diameter

Simon Allen was in born in Bristol and currently lives and works on the edge of moorland, in a remote area of West Cornwall.  With his immaculately gilded and expressively carved wooden wall sculptures often diriving from direct experience of and within nature, Allen has conceived a modus operandi that incorporates natural elements with two distinct but conjoined disciplines. The carving stage is physical and emotive. The rhythmically rippling surfaces, swooping undulations and swirling peaks and troughs represent the trace elements of a process that has its own bodily rhythm. By contrast, the painstaking application of gesso and ‘bole’ — the gilder’s ground formed from clay and pigment — and the gentle brushing on and burnishing of white gold leaf call on a more contemplative cast of mind. It is the tension between these two modes of awareness that gives the finished works their unique singular transcendental presence. 

Simon Allen’s work has been exhibited extensively and can found in numerous major private and corporate 
collections worldwide.