Pepijn Simon

The Concert. Oil on canvas. 300 x 200 cm. Pepijn Simon

Barflies Pepijn Simon

Two Figures on a Bed, Pepijn Simon, 2020

2nd Study after Velázquez, Francis Bacon & Sergej Eisenstein. Pope Innocent X 100 x 140 cm Pepijn Simon 2016

Born from the 1967 Netherlands cradle of artists, felt those emotions that often lead to a call as early as the age of 5.  He turned to art in order to foster his own safe haven.  Simon knew rapidly that each emotion is a fusion of realism and abstraction, from which that instant becomes portrayed by it through the hands of the artist that vehicles them.  Simon paints without the use of any brushes. In fact, he is using old twisted credit cards as a kind of vehicle to lay down the vision; the sketch if you will.  Particularly because he paints from a felt emotion, the process is very fast, revealing the characters shortly thereafter, which he then accents while the paint is still wet; deciding what can stay and what is superfluous to “the message” he pursues.  Some may look at his work and feel it very “Bacon”, very  “Velázquez” and therefore very influenced.  Now, the lest we forget, most great Masters, never shied away from copying ‘miles’ of existing works prior to let their voice render there more personal message.  What counts is the force within how these influences are rendered.  The result is striking; the artist worth watching.

A Man Sitting On A Red Couch With A Cat

(Study For Three Figures On A Red Couch)

Oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm

Pepijn Simon

Two  Figures On A Red Couch

(Study For Three Figures On A Red Couch)

Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm

Pepijn Simon

Pepijn Simon

redlipstickresurrected: Pepijn Simon (Dutch, b. 1967 Netherlands) - The Psychiatrist, 2015. Paintings: Oil on Canvas

Barflies Pepijn Simon

Waiting Oil on canvas 100 x140 cm Pepijn Simon 2017

After Bacon and Banksy. From the art fusion series. Oil on linen 140 x 100 cm

Pepijn Simon

2019

3rd Study after Velázquez, Francis Bacon & Sergej Eisenstein. Pope Innocent X

Oil on aluminium

106 x 162 cm Pepijn Simon 2018

Pepijn Simon, b. 1967