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Contact - movingbrush@gmail.com
2017 WORKSHOPS/ SEMINARS. For details see Workshops in the menu
NEW CALENDAR
2017 CALENDAR A new luxury calendar from the German firm Weingarten is now available either direct from me, signed, or online. See PUBLICATIONS
Paintings can be viewed in my gallery at
THE ART GALLERY
ATELIER SIMON FLETCHER, 34610 St Gervais sur Mare. Tel+33 623 921 960
Contact Simon Fletcher
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+33 (0) 623921960
www.simonfletcher.org
Here you can view and buy paintings, books and prints, choose frames, discuss painting workshops and commissions. By appointment please by e-mail or phone
In December 2015 my work was featured as BRIDGEMAN STUDIO Artist of the month images and an interview - Representing some of the best known contemporary artists, the Studio is going from strength to strength and several newprojects are being prepared for my work - thank you Bridgeman Studio!
Bridgeman publishing hold a growing number of works for reproduction in various media, illustrations, prints, and some originals.
http://www.bridgemanimages.com/
workshops in 2017
Please go to WORKSHOPS in the list above for workshop dates in 2017
Cliquez sur WORKSHOPS pour dates de mes ateliers en 2017
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Jour de Fete, 36x56 watercolour
Painting in a French village on a beautiful hot day in May.
My images are available for reproduction as calendars or illustrations: check out the Bridgeman site below
Images pour cartes, calendriers ou illustrations
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Voici la cote à Port Vendres, lieux mythiques pour les peintres. Ici, il y a cent ans les grands peintres, Picasso, Matisse, Derain etc. sont venues pour faire leurs expériences dans l'art moderne. Vous aussi avez la possibilité de peindre ici 26, 27 et 28 septembre avec moi et un petit groupe des peintres. N'hésite pas à me contacter si ça vos interesse!
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Getting inside the painter’s mind
Simon Fletcher is one of the best watercolour painters around. He has spent over 30 years refining his technique, which is a mile away from the British tradition, and closer to that of the Austrian and German expressionists, such as Emil Nolde, Oscar Kokoschka and Karl Schmitt-Rottluff.
When asked, out of the blue, two years ago to produce a mural covering 50 square metres of a wine estate building in southern France, Simon saw it as the opportunity of a lifetime to explore and explode the essence of the watercolourist’s art– literally by blowing up his work.
This is not as easy as it sounds. The essence of watercolour is the transparency of many pigments and the whiteness of the paper illuminating the image from inside. Blowing up a watercolour using traditional enlargement methods tends to reduce the illumination to an insipid greyness.
But with graphic techniques applied by his son Gerry, who works as a graphic designer at the BBC, the intensity of the paint stays the same regardless of the magnification. So the viewer is confronted, not by a sea of pixels, as in a Roy Lichtenstein classic, but by intense brushmarks and contrasts. It is if a giant hand using gallons of paint has been at work. You see the individual atoms of pigment mingled in organised fractal chaos.
For the first time, perhaps, the art of the watercolourist is revealed in amazing detail on the big screen.
Peter and Susan Close, who commissioned the work for Chateau Complazens, their winery near Narbonne, asked for an unusual mural. What they have ended up with is an extraordinary adventure into the possibilities that the digital age offers to watercolour.
The mural will be opened to the public on Saturday June 28th. There is a special press opening on Friday July 4th.
www.camplazens.com +33 (0) 468 453 889
www.simonfletcher.org +33 (0) 467 236 528 +33 (0) 623921960
David Shirreff, formerly with
The Economist helped to organise an exhibition of my work sponsored by The Economist
Travel and work
For years now I've travelled to learn from other painters and places and have been lucky to know some of the truly great painters as well as having the huge pleasure of discovering new places and cultures.
I was invited to write my first book in 1994 and this gave me the opportunity of sharing my pleasure and excitement in some ground breaking painters as well as writing about the new and better paints that have become available over the past thirty years.
Since then I've gone on to write ten books mostly about my own work in watercolour and pastel. Some are still available and you can find a bibliography under the books heading with a short description of each book and how to order them.
"Surely one of the greatest living watercolour painters" R Muller Mehlis writing in The Munchener Mercure
"Simon Fletcher has reinvented pastel painting" Professor W Rupen, Sion, Switzerland
