Simon Quadrat - The Unguarded Moment

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Simon Quadrat was born in London in 1946, the son of German Jewish refugees. For the first half of his professional life he enjoyed a successful career at the Criminal Bar both in London and Bristol, which he gave up to become a full-time painter. This is a move he has never regretted as he quickly established both a career and a reputation as a painter of strong technical ability and of striking and memorable images. In 2004 he was elected to be an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy and soon thereafter was elected to be Academicians’ Chairman and following that term of office, President.

He has exhibited regularly in London and the south of England and this is his third one man show with Panter & Hall. His work is in a number of private collections. In 2012 Simon and his wife Jenny moved from Bristol to Aldbourne in Wiltshire, a beautiful downland village and once the home of Jankel Adler, a painter Simon much admires, as well as writer Gerald Brennan and composer Gerald Finzi. Almost all the pictures in this exhibition have been painted in his studio here, an old beamed barn at the end of the garden from which he can look out over the church, the village and the country side beyond.

Over the years that he has been exhibiting, his approach to painting has slowly evolved while his subject matter has remained eclectic and unpredictable. There are now fewer still lives, rather more colour and a stronger human presence. His painting is founded in memory, imagination and numerous cultural references both British and European. The need to put a human perspective into his paintings has grown with time. Each painting seeks to tell a story but it is a story which is deliberately ambiguous and one left to the viewer to determine. His paintings are rooted, without any sense of nostalgia, in the 20th century but his recurring themes of companionship and isolation are timeless. Simon Quadrat’ paintings draw the viewer with their arresting imagery but it is their depth which repays repeated viewing.

29 October - 14 November 2014

Panter & Hall
11-12 Pall Mall
London
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Simon Quadrat PPRWA NEAC

Byzantine Domes

oil on board

11.75 x 16.25 ins (30 x 41 cms)

£1,100

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Icarus Falling

oil on board

10.5 x 13 ins (27 x 33 cms)

£950

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Cirque de l'etoile

oil on canvas

31.5 x 39.5 ins (80 x 100 cms)

£7,000

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Outside the Luna Park

oil on board

20.5 x 30 ins (52 x 76 cms)

£4,200

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The Fairground Attendant

oil on board

20 x 25 ins (51 x 64 cms)

£4,000

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The Station Master

oil on canvas

30 x 20 ins (76 x 51 cms)

£4,500

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On the Street

oil on paper

14 x 18 ins (36 x 46 cms)

£2,000

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The Open Window

oil on canvas

18 x 22 ins (46 x 56 cms)

£3,200

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The Young Couple

oil on board

20.5 x 30 ins (52 x 76 cms)

£4,200

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The Watcher

oil on canvas

18 x 22 ins (46 x 56 cms)

£2,600

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The Swimmer

oil on canvas

25.5 x 21.5 ins (65 x 55 cms)

£3,500

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The Pool

oil on canvas

24 x 24 ins (61 x 61 cms)

£3,200

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The Cafe Garden

oil on canvas

39.5 x 27.5 ins (100 x 70 cms)

£7,800

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Houses by a River

oil on canvas

12 x 16 ins (30 x 41 cms)

£1,800

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The Illuminated Greenhouse

oil on canvas

21 x 25.5 ins (53 x 65 cms)

£3,500

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Still Life with Kitchen Sink

oil on board

30 x 41 ins (76 x 104 cms)

£6,800

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The Engineer

oil on canvas

20 x 25 ins (51 x 64 cms)

£3,800

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Coastal Town

oil on panel

18 x 23 ins (46 x 58 cms)

£3,000

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Still life with Mannequin

oil on board

16 x 20.5 ins (41 x 52 cms)

£2,800

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Black to Play

oil on canvas

29 x 23.5 ins (74 x 60 cms)

£4,200

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Sennen Cove

oil on canvas

18 x 22 ins (46 x 56 cms)

£3,000

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Incident at Night

oil on canvas

30 x 30 ins (76 x 76 cms)

£4,500

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Night Flight

oil on canvas

48 x 56 ins (122 x 142 cms)

£14,500

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Still Life with Clock

oil on board

15 x 20 ins (38 x 51 cms)

£2,200

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