Simeon Stafford was born in Dukinfield, UK, in 1959. As a young artist, his landscapes were similar to the gritty northern landscapes of L. S. Lowry and other northern English artists. At the age of 14, Stafford met L. S. Lowry, who encouraged him to paint. Simeon moved to Cornwall in 1996, where he met the artist's Terry Frost and Patrick Heron. Thus his northern roots fused with the influence of color and light from Frost and Heron and the magnetism of West Penwith to create an expressionism within his work, which is both powerful and alluring. Not concerned with angst and soul searching, in his own words - there is enough of that in the world of news today. Stafford's work is deeply idiosyncratic and reflects a world full of incident and accident, with splashes of vibrant color and amusing compositions. He charmingly combines reality and imagination, with many of his paintings featuring characters from his family, including Auntie Dot, the little girl who is constantly doing a handstand, Trixie, the family Jack Russell, who lived until she was 28 and is now stuffed and a resident of Simeon’s bedroom and the black seaside donkey. Widely regarded as one of the country's leading living artists, Stafford exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2001, and in 2003 he became a member of The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. His work can be found in numerous private collections, including those of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The Wharf St Ives: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A very fine offering from the artist using his style of surreal distortion to celebrate the workaday routines of the life in which he is immersed.This is a real reflection of Staffor...
Oil
Newlyn Harbour: Contemporary Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is an archetypal Stafford painting. Cheery tugs and Cornish fishing boats bobbing about in the harbour as they busy themselves with their days routine and the townsfolk watching...
Canvas, Oil
'Steam Ships' Colourful Energetic painting of figures, harbour, cars, boats
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed size: 23" x 29" 'Steam Ships' is a joyful celebration of Britain's rich maritime heritage, brought to life through the unmistakable energy and imagination of Simeon Stafford....
Canvas, Oil
Northern Fair: Contemporary Naive School Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Harking back to his roots in this picture Simeon Stafford has captured, in a whirling scene of colourful chaos all the elements that made travelling fairs such magical places for adu...
Oil
Newlyn Harbour: Contemporary Seascape Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is an archetypal Stafford painting. Cheery tugs and Cornish fishing boats bobbing about in the harbour as they busy themselves with their days routine and the townsfolk watching...
Canvas, Oil
Open Day At The Docks: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A really exiting day out for the people off to the docks to get a behind the scenes look at an environment that’s usually out of bounds. The feel of the suppressed excitement is quit...
Oil Pastel
St Ives: Contemporary Seaside Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
The holiday season is in full swing with all our favourite Simeon Stafford characters enjoying themselves on the beach amongst the transient population of tourists who flock to St. I...
Oil
Evening In Marzion: Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Work is over for the day for the inhabitants of the little Cornish town, and as the day draws to a close there's a last minute chance to catch up on the days' events and gossip. The ...
Canvas, Oil
Marazion: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A happy day in the little English seaside town of Marazion, in Cornwall. This painting has Stafford's characters seeming to jump for joy at the mere pr...
Oil
$1,950
H 14 in W 12 in
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Oil, Board
$849Sale Price|20% Off
H 15 in W 18 in
1960's French Post Impressionist Oil Painting South of France Coastal Town Sea
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, signed and dated lower right Title: Sleepy coastal town, South of France, painted in soft muted green tones. Medium: oil painting on b...
Oil
$1,091Sale Price|20% Off
H 15 in W 18 in
1930s French Fauvist Oil Painting - Far Reaching Provencal Landscape Pink Houses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1930's, inscribed verso. Title: Provencal Landscape Medium: oil painting on board, unframed, board: 15 x 18 inches Provenance: private colle...
Oil
$5,000
H 30 in W 24 in
"Aquinnah Fog" oil painting of red brick lighthouse in nature shining light
By Rob Brooks
Located in Edgartown, MA
From an incandescent sunset on Long Island Sound to an iconic pop-kitsch ice storage bin at the neighborhood corner store, Rob Brooks offers us a visual journey from the real to surr...
Canvas, Oil
$800
H 15.75 in W 19.1 in D 0.79 in
Girls and Ponies: naive surrealist outsider Alice in Wonderland style painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Step into a dreamlike pastoral paradise with this enchanting mid-century oil on canvas by French artist Denise Collet. Titled "Girls and Ponies," this wo...
Canvas, Oil
$959Sale Price|20% Off
H 15 in W 18 in
1930's French Post Impressionist Oil Painting - Summer Provence Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1930's, inscribed verso. Title: Summer in Provence Medium: oil painting on canvas board, unframed, board: 1...
Oil
Meditation
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon is widely recognized for his calm, contemplative landscapes and skyscapes, paintings that hold stillness, clarity, and a quiet reverence for nature. In this exhibition,...
Canvas, Oil
$19,001
H 25.5 in W 30 in
La Mer du Nord - Fauvist Figures in Landscape Oil Painting by Carlos Nadal
By Carlos Nadal
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled fauvist oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1965 by Spanish painter Carlos Nadal. The work depicts a view of bathers and beach huts along a golden stretch of s...
Canvas, Oil
A Haitian Country Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Haitian artist Jacksin Mésidor painted this from his Caribbean coastal hometown of Cap-Haitien in the north of his native land. As Haitian folk art, the painting delivers an archityp...
Masonite, Oil
$817Sale Price|26% Off
H 23.63 in W 28.75 in
Sitges oil on canvas painting Spain mediterranean village european art
By Jordi Curos Ventura
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Paseo de Sitges Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 23.6 x 28.7 in Signature: Signed in the lower righ...
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
H 48 in W 48 in
Contaminating the Innocent - Young Girl Swimming Surrounded by Plastic Waste
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting reflects Bruno Surdo’s continued engagement with classical realism as a vehicle for contemporary allegory. A young girl, centered and frontal, sits in an inflatable ring surrounded by floating plastic waste—bottles, containers, straws—both above and beneath the water’s surface. The composition is calm, almost symmetrical, yet emotionally unsettling. Surdo’s atelier-based training is evident in the careful modeling of the child’s anatomy, the naturalistic rendering of skin tones, and the controlled atmospheric perspective. The figure is painted with the same dignity and structural clarity found in Renaissance portraiture, elevating what could be a simple environmental image into a modern history painting. Art historically, the work draws from the tradition of allegorical portraiture, where innocence is personified to communicate moral themes. The child recalls Renaissance depictions of putti or symbolic youth figures, yet here innocence is placed in peril. The floating debris creates a contemporary vanitas motif: instead of skulls and extinguished candles, the symbols of decay are plastic and petroleum byproducts—markers of environmental neglect. The waterline dividing the composition subtly recalls the layered moral narratives of Baroque painting, where surface beauty often concealed deeper truths. The title, Contaminating the Innocent, underscores this allegorical intent, transforming the image into a meditation on generational responsibility. Within Surdo’s broader oeuvre—often concerned with spectacle, identity, and human consequence—this painting shifts toward ecological consciousness. Yet it remains consistent with his practice of grounding urgent modern themes in the visual authority of classical technique. By presenting environmental degradation through the lens of Renaissance-informed realism, Surdo avoids didactic illustration and instead creates a quiet, haunting indictment. The stillness of the child’s gaze contrasts with the chaos of the polluted water, reinforcing the central tension: the vulnerability of innocence in a world shaped by adult action. Bruno Surdo Contaminating the Innocent oil on canvas 48h x 48w in 121.92h x 121.92w cm BRS072 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2020 Realities, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden...
Canvas, Oil
$4,995
H 36 in W 48 in
"Northern Breeze" (2025), Original Contemporary Barn, Oil Painting on Canvas
By Justin Wheatley
Located in Denver, CO
Justin Wheatley's "Good Morning" is an original, handmade acrylic painting depicting a city scene with a basketball hoop. Justin Wheatley was born and raised in Clinton, Utah. He ho...
Canvas, Oil
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H 48.04 in W 24.02 in D 1.58 in
Very Large, Contemporary Modern British, Cornish Naive Outsider Art of St Ives
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very large, wonderful image of this well know Cornish view painted in the highly appealing Naive style of Simeon Stafford. A swirl of activity on sea and land; a dozen different pictures contained within a glorious whole. And then, to top all this, there is another marvellous painting on the reverse of a Sea Maiden Simeon Stafford (born 1956) A panoramic view of St Ives Signed, "Simeon" lower right Oil on board 48 x 24 inches without frame 50 x 26 with frame The reverse painted with an anthropomorphic landscape...
Oil, Board
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H 15.88 in W 18.25 in D 1 in
Modern British oil painting of St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall by Simeon Stafford
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) St Michael’s Mount oil on board Signed `Simeon’ (lower right) and inscribed with title and dated `2011’ (on the reverse) 15.7/8 x 18.1/4 in. (40.3 x...
Oil, Board
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H 31.5 in W 31.5 in D 1 in
Modern British oil painting of St. Ives beach by Simeon Stafford
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) Near St Ives Oil on canvas Signed `Simeon’ (lower left), further signed and inscribed with title (on the reverse) 31.1/2 x 31.1/2 in. (80 x 80 cm.) ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 15.75 in W 22.75 in D 1 in
Simeon Stafford pencil drawing of St. Michael's bay, Cornwall, 2012
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) St Michael’s Bay Pencil on paper Signed `Simeon’ (lower right) 15.3/4 x 22.3/4 in. (40 x 57.8 cm.) Executed in 2012 Simeon Stafford was born in Duk...
Pencil
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H 8 in W 10 in D 1 in
British contemporary oil painting by Simeon Stafford 'Cambourne Rally'
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) Cambourne rally Oil on panel Signed and dated `SIMEON!/14.1.21’ (lower right) further signed on the reverse of the panel 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.3 cm.) Simeon Stafford is a British Painter, born in 1956 he started painting at age 14. He was encouraged to paint by LS...
Oil, Panel
"Liverpool Docks" Contemporary Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A strong and vibrant Stafford image harking back to his Northern roots. This depiction of Liverpool docks is lively and fun, the harbour is busy with boats, ships & people. Auntie Do...
Canvas, Oil
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H 21 in W 27 in D 2 in
"The Derby - Manchester United v Manchester City"
By Simeon Stafford
Located in ludlow, GB
Simeon Stafford – “The Big Match” Oil on Board, Signed and Framed. Simeon Stafford was born in the 1950s, in Duckinfield, a small northern town bordering ...
Oil
"Fun Fair On The Harbour Wall". Figurative Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Fun Fair On The Harbour Wall. Typical happy Simeon Stafford painting depicting a happy life in Cornwall. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.2003 Picture in e...
Canvas, Oil
Still Life: Contemporary Mixed Media Still Life Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Simeon showing a different side to his art with this really beautiful Sill Life. Oil and canvas on board. Excellent condition. Behind glass Framed 30" x 34" Image 25" x 28.5"
Canvas, Oil
A Day In Town: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
As well as his celebrated Cornish paintings Stafford also painted a series set in London. In this picture he captures the excitement of a visit to En...
Oil
The New Baby
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
An unusual painting from Simeon Stafford. Proud parents showing off baby and blissfully happy despite the pouring rain. Once again Simeon hits the nail on the head in creating a joyo...
Oil
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H 21 in W 31 in
Sunday Afternoon, Mousehole: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
The harbour in the tiny fishing village of Mousehole in Cornwall England on a sunny Sunday afternoon. There's just enough room to enjoy a sheltered play on the beach before the tide ...
Oil