biography

selected exhibitions

“really beautiful work… wonderful honesty and vulnerability, which comes from a genuine creative process”

Emma Helbrough, author and editor

“stunning and generous work… I want it everywhere”

Joanna King, Curator

“Although the challenging practice of abstract painting has been with us for the best part of 100 years now, new work of great individuality and significance is still being produced, and Simon M Smith is, in my view, one of the very best practitioners of his generation. His work is invariably small in scale, using torn paper, drawing materials and soft colour washes to create gentle meditative texts. They are calming, possessing what some might call a ‘oneness’ or an ‘isness’, for they sit quietly and comfortably in their space and offer themselves up as objects of contemplation, leaving us to make our response and decide upon their meaning”

John Gilboy, Orange Street Gallery

"...a Picasso of his time..."

Adriana de Barros, breathewords.com



ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 7 - 21 August 2010

summer show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 25 May – 28 August 2010

3rd annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, 27 - 28 Cork Street, London 5 - 13 August 2010

FRINGEMK 2010, 15 July - 1 September 2010 finalist

Cambridge Art Fair, Chilford Hall, Cambridgeshire, 25 - 27 June 2010

spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 6 March - 29 May 2010

spring show, Burnham Grapevine Gallery, Burnham Market, Norfolk 6 February – 17 April 2010

Debt Doctors Foundation/Sotheby's Fashion, Arts and Culture Auction, Great Hall of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London 4 December 2009

ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 12 - 22 November 2009

affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 22 - 25 October 2009 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]

autumn show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 2 September – 28 November 2009

ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 1 - 15 August 2009

summer show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 2 June – 29 August 2009

2nd annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London 6 - 15 August 2009

spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 3 March - 30 May 2009

mixed exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculpture, The Art Stable, Child Okeford, Dorset 14 March - 4 April 2009

christmas show, Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely 19 November -December 20 2008

christmas exhibitions, Grapevine Contemporary Arts, Norwich and Burnham Market 30 November - 24 December 2008

affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 23 - 26 October 2008 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]

ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 13 - 23 November 2008

ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 31 July – 15 August 2008

1st annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London 31 July – 9 August 2008

summer exhibition, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset 12 July - 6 September 2008

summer exhibition 08: New work by gallery artists, Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale July - August 2008

suffolk showcase, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, 14 June - 19 July 2008

royal society of Birmingham artists, RSBA Gallery, Birmingham, 29 May – 5 July 2008

simon m smith & alan flood, two-man show, Orange Street Gallery, Uppingham, 19 April – 17 May 2008

spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 19 February - 24 May 2008

new year, new work, Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
7 February - 6 March 2008

black is back, Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames, Berkshire
12 December 2007 - 25 February 2008

christmas show, Horace Blue, Norwich 1 - 24 December 2007

winter show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 30 October 2007 - 26 January 2008

affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 18 - 21 October 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]

grand designs live, stand E3, NEC Birmingham 5 - 7 October 2007

suffolk showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 29 June – 28 July 2007

works on paper Digby Gallery, Mercury Theatre Colchester 19 June – 19 July 2007 solo show

cambridgeshire art fair Chilford Hall, Linton 8 – 10 June 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]

summer show Sheridan Russell Gallery, 16 Crawford Street, London, W1H 1BS 29 May – 29 September 2007

affordable art fair Bristol, 17 – 20 May 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]

east – west artists culture club Group exhibition, Light Gallery, London 5 – 10 December 2006

liberte d’expression:

Barclays Global Headquarters, Canary Wharf, London 2 – 8 November 2006
Candid Arts Trust, Islington 9 – 12 November 2006

suffolk showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 8 July – 5 August 2006

FAB ART 05 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 25 Nov - 2 December 2005

'the scent of magnolia’ The Wall Gallery Ely 30 October – 24 November 2005 solo show

a fine line Euroart Gallery, Tottenham, London 9 - 20 November 2004

on the wall Olympia Grand Hall, London 29 September - 3 October 2004

'approaching silence' The Wall Gallery Ely Cambridgeshire 1 - 27 February 2004 solo show

FAB ART 03 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 28 Nov - 5 December 2003 silver prize winner

Eastern Open 2003 King's Lynn March - May 2003

Eastern Open 2002 King's Lynn March - May 2002

Visual Haiku Peterborough Art House 8 June - 7 July 2001

Eastern Open 2001 King's Lynn March - May 2001

Kettle's Yard Open Cambridge 1 - 30 July 2000

Eastern Open 2000 King's Lynn March - May 2000

Cheltenham Open Drawing 1999:

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels
Karl Hofer Gallery, Berlin
European Illustration Collection, Humberside University

Eastern Open 1999 King's Lynn March - May 1999

Drawings for All '96:

Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Stamford Arts Centre
Chelmsford Art Gallery
King of Hearts, Norwich
De Montfort University, Lincoln