Simon Allen was born in Bristol in 1967. He studied Fine Art at Falmouth school of Art, and then spent several years working in London, where he learned the art of water gilding. He now lives in West Cornwall near the sea, on the edge of a rugged moor, where he works in a converted barn studio.

Simon Allen's gilded wall sculptures are carved in wood and hang as if levitating from the wall.

These abstract works are firmly rooted in, and inspired by nature and the landscape.

The inspiration of the sea, water and its movement, can be clearly seen in much of his work. His affinity with the sea also relates to his past, in which he has enjoyed much time sailing, including a transatlantic passage.

Simon's work has been gaining in reputation with many private sales and commissions in this country and abroad. Last year he sold 12 works to the investment bank Schroders. ( cont...)Other corporate clients include Grade 1 listed hotel, The Forbury Hotel, and The Hell Bay, Isles of Scilly, as well as the designer Kelly Hoppen.

" …There is another invisible landscape which the visible landscape can only hint at. This is the rhythmic landscape of energy.

This landscape is not the bird but the bird's flight, not the river, but the river's flow, not the tree, but the leaves bending to the wind. And it is to this hidden landscape that Simon's sculptures refer, reducing it and reforming it to abstract pattern.

To own a sculpture of Simon's is not to own a window on the world, but to bring the world itself into the room."

Breon O Casey , artist