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Simeon Stafford was born in Dukinfield (a small northern town bordering the Pennines) in 1956. He was introduced to L.S.Lowry at the age of 14 after winning the Robert Owen School Award for Art and the Manchester News Portrait Award, Lowry became a friend of the family and encouraged Simeon to study art.
In 1972 and 1973, he studied at Hyde College and in 1974, became a professional artist and exhibited his work in mixed exhibitions throughout the north of England and London.
Like so many artists Simeon is also an accomplished musician and composer being a member of the North West Composers Association and the British Academy of Composers.
In 1996 Simeon moved to the Penwith Peninsula,Cornwall and settled down close to St.Ives where his influences included the artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron, whose colour and light had a great impact on him.
Not concerned with angst and soul searching, in his own words "there is enough of that in the world of news today", Stafford's world of pictorial imagery is a world of humour and fun, an essence of spontaneity that is joyfully translated to the viewer. Simeon Stafford is an observer of life, his paintings are crammed full of incidents and accidents, bustling scenes of human interaction, a happy dialogue of work and play.
Simeon Stafford was born in Dukinfield (a small northern town bordering the Pennines) in 1956. He was introduced to L.S.Lowry at the age of 14 after winning the Robert Owen School Award for Art and the Manchester News Portrait Award, Lowry became a friend of the family and encouraged Simeon to study art.
In 1972 and 1973, he studied at Hyde College and in 1974, became a professional artist and exhibited his work in mixed exhibitions throughout the north of England and London.
Like so many artists Simeon is also an accomplished musician and composer being a member of the North West Composers Association and the British Academy of Composers.
In 1996 Simeon moved to the Penwith Peninsula,Cornwall and settled down close to St.Ives where his influences included the artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron, whose colour and light had a great impact on him.
Not concerned with angst and soul searching, in his own words "there is enough of that in the world of news today", Stafford's world of pictorial imagery is a world of humour and fun, an essence of spontaneity that is joyfully translated to the viewer. Simeon Stafford is an observer of life, his paintings are crammed full of incidents and accidents, bustling scenes of human interaction, a happy dialogue of work and play.
