Simon Palmer was born in South Yorkshire in 1956. He studied at Reigate Art School graduating in 1977. Since then, he has made Yorkshire his home, and the life and landscape of this county has informed almost all of his work. Over the last 3 decades, he has become one of Britain's leading watercolor artists, and is keenly collected in the UK and abroad. He held many solo exhibitions in London and provincial galleries from 1978 to 1990.... Like other British landscape artists before him, Palmer draws a spiritual connection with a specific place: anyone visiting Wensleydale will immediately recognize the territory of his imagination: narrow lanes, drystone walls and winding fences, bridges over railways and rivers, stone houses, and most of all the trees in all their glory, whether it be the dense foliage of high summer or the skeletal branches of frozen winter. In the depiction of trees, his vision is truly unique. (http://www.jhwfineart.com/content/artistbiography/2589/simon_palmer.html) Simon Palmer studied illustration and graphic design at Reigate School of Art during which he was encouraged by his tutors to pursue landscape painting. He worked for a while in Kent but returned to his birthplace of Yorkshire where he is now based near Masham. His enigmatic & captivating paintings pay homage to the people and landscape of Northern England. His paintings effectively marry present day reality with the equally interesting realm of his imagination transporting us into a world filled with intriguing characters and situations. It is this narrative quality coupled with his wit that has meant Simon’s work has attracted a large following from art collectors both at home and abroad. “Palmer's work recalls the tonal qualities of William Morris in his muted earthy hues, and has a calm tendency towards surrealism reminiscent of Stanley Spencer as he presents his unfathomable situations”. (http://www.mashamgallery.co.uk/simon-palmer.html) undefined

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