Simon Quadrat PPRWA NEAC

Curious Expressions

recent paintings and works on paper

Saturday 19 September – Sunday 8 November 2020

Gabriele Koch recent ceramics

Petter Southall furniture

Simon Quadrat On the River 100 x 73 cm £7,500

Simon Quadrat’s paintings can be seen below and are available now to buy or reserve. Any enquiries, please email us on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or phone +44 (0)1308 459511.

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  Dockside Houses oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm £8,200

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  Snooker Players oil on canvas 100 x 100cm £8,800

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  Strange Encounter oil on canvas 100 x 100cm £8,200

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  Street Scene with Five Figures oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm £8,200

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  The Card Player oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm £8,200

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  The Parting oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm £8,200

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  Circus Horse dances the Polka oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm £7,500

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  On the River oil on canvas 100 x 73 cm £7,500

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  The Wedding Party oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £7,200

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  Viaduct oil on canvas 61 x 92 cm £7,200

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  Punch and Judy by the Lighthouse oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £6,750

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  The Bird Cage oil on canvas 64 x 77 cm £6,500

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  Studio oil on canvas 63 x 76 cm £6,250

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  Street Organ oil on canvas 60 x 74 cm £5,200

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  Woman drinking Coffee oil on canvas 65 x 70 cm £5,200

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  Street Corner oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm £4,400

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  Still Life with Oil Lamp oil on board 76 x 51 cm £4,200

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  Still Life by a Window oil on canvas 61 x 46 cm £3,800

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  Private View oil on board 45 x 56 cm £3,600

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  Waiting by the Fish Stall oil on canvas 43 x 53 cm £3,600

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  Marionette Theatre oil on board 41 x 51 cm £3,400

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  Couple on a Roof oil on paper 40 x 48 cm £3,200

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  Woman and Hat oil on canvas 38 x 61 cm £3,200

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  Coastal Landscape oil on panel 36 x 51 cm £3,000

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  Carousel oil on board 49 x 40 cm £3,000

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  The Lookout oil on board 41 x 49 cm £3,000

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  Car in Street oil on canvas 35 x 51 cm £2,800

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  Woman in a Room oil on board 51 x 36 cm £2,800

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  Dark Coast oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm £2,750

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  The Tailor oil on board 36 x 46 cm £2,750

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  Woman in the Street oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm £2,750

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  Man in Dark Glasses oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm £2,600

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  The Royal Hotel oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm £2,600

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  Strange Couple oil on panel 37 x 37 cm £2,200

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  The Rabbi and his Wife oil on canvas 31 x 41 cm SOLD

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  Fireworks oil on canvas 27 x 41 cm £1,900

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  Still Life with Shoe Polish oil on canvas 33 x 41 cm £1,800

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  Jeff Loves Barbara oil and tempera on board £1,650

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  Woman in Blue Chair oil on panel 30 c 30 cm £1,600

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  Train Passing oil on board 24 x 25 cm £1,500

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  The White Tower gouache on paper 23 x 31 cm SOLD

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  The Spivs pen and ink on paper 30 x 22 cm £675

Simon Quadrat was born in London in 1946, the son of Jewish émigrés who separately fled pre-war Germany in the 1930s leaving everything behind. Simon remembers a truly cosmopolitan family life conducted in many languages, often all at the same time. His father settled into business after the war and they frequently visited Europe, even post-war Germany, to see family.  His mother was both a painter and a pianist. Simon also painted and played piano from an early age but he says he was a scholarly child aware that he needed to make his living.

Simon studied law at Bristol University and established himself as a criminal barrister in the Temple in London and then, from 1985, in Bristol where he continued to practice on the Western Circuit becoming Head of Chambers in the early 1990’s. When Suzy his first wife died in 1996, his thoughts turned more and more to his passion for painting. In 1999 he remarried to Jenny and, with her encouragement, he gave up the law to become a full-time professional painter.

All his life he has studied art, wherever he went, reading books about it and drawing. He taught himself to paint in his twenties mainly by rushing over to the London art galleries and museums whenever he had a spare hour. The design and astonishing humanity of early Sienese paintings echo throughout his work. However it is the modern British paintings of the immediate pre- and post-war that are most clearly referenced in his work. His palette of palest blues, ochre yellows and burnt orange seem straight from the fifties, retro and highly appealing to us now.

The faces that look out from Simon Quadrat’s paintings communicate directly with the onlooker.  Their eyes seem to tell stories and even evoke memories.  The paintings speak of common experience with an empathetic, gentle voice.  They are informed by a highly intelligent and educated European mind. References to paintings and to stories are there to be picked up or not as the case may be. Simon Quadrat’s subtle yet daring use of colour and his way of laying on paint and scraping it away to create layers of texture and what could be called history within the painting create a quality of work that is a delight to see.  Combined with his evocative subject matter this creates fascinating and desirable paintings.

In London Simon exhibits with Panter and Hall on Pall Mall. He was elected an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy in 2004, became Academicians’ Chairman responsible for the major exhibitions in the main galleries at the RWA in 2007 and was elected President in 2010. In 2010 he filled Sladers Yard in a highly successful solo show and has exhibited here since in group shows. In 2012 he retired from the committee of the RWA and moved with Jenny to Wiltshire where he continues to paint. In 2015 he became a member of the New English Art Club. We are delighted to show another major collection of recent work now.

Please contact us at gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or t: 44 (0)1308 459511 to enquire about Simon Quadrat’s work, to receive an invitation to his opening in September and a notification when his new work becomes available to view online.