Simon Pooley (British, b.1955)
Coombe Bridge, 2000
Mixed Media on Board
Signed and dated "S Pooley 2000" (lower right)
25 cms x 21 cms (image)
45 x 41 cms (framed)
Provenance:
Private Collection United Kingdom
[with] Contemporary Art Management
 
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. Pooley 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. Pooley is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

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

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

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