simon stooks
Dorset born Simon Stooks trained at Shelley Park School in Bournemouth (1989 - 1991) and graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 1994 with a BA Honours in Fine Art.
He has work in many private collections both at home and abroad, as well as work in public collections including Falmouth School of Art School, Lloyds of London, Chancery Lane and Canford Magna School.
Solo Shows
2010 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance - Rooftops over St. Ives
2009 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance - Food for Birds
2009 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance - Over Rooftops to the Mount
2008 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance - Rooftops, Chimneys and Boats
2008 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance - St. Michael’s Mount
2007 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance - Boats, Huts, Wildflowers
2006 The Great Atlantic, Monmouth, Wales - Inside Outside
2005 The Great Atlantic, Cornwall - A Breath of Fresh Air
2004 The Great Atlantic Galleries, St. Just, Cornwall - From Dawn ‘til Dusk
Group Exhibitions
2007 - 2010 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance, Cornwall
2009 Poole Arts Centre, Dorset - Working Artists of Dorset
2008- 2009 Cornwall Contemporary at the Lennox Gallery - London Show
2009 - 2010 Beside the Wave, Falmouth, Cornwall
2006 - 2007 Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon
2005 - 2008 Langham Fine Art, Suffolk - Annual Show
2006 Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2004 Beside the Wave, joint exhibition with Paul Wadsworth, Coast to Coast
2001 and 2004 Chelsea Art Fair, London
2000 - 2008 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
2003 Beside the Wave, joint exhibition with Amanda Hoskin - Fields of Colour
2002 Beside the Wave, joint exhibition with Paul Wadsworth - Headlands & Inlets
2001 Beside the Wave, joint exhibition with Andrew Tozer - From River to Beach
2004 Thomas Henry Fine Art, Dorchester, Dorset
2001 - 2004 Thomas Henry Fine Art, Nantucket Island, USA
2000 Beside the Wave, Falmouth, Cornwall
1998 Corn Exchange, Brighton
1997 Churchill Square & Blue Parrot, Brighton, West Sussex
1995 Mall Gallery, London
1994 Chancery Lane - City Brokers
1993 Mall Gallery, London - In the Mind’s Eye
Published Works and Press
2008 Featured Article in Galleries Magazine - November Edition
2008 Featured Article in Inside Cornwall - November Edition.
2005 Painting Published as a Poster by Ikea
2003 Front Cover of Artist Illustrator Magazine
2001 - 2006 Featured in Various Articles for Cornwall Today/Inside Cornwall Magazine
Awards
1993 Cash Prize, Mall Gallery, London
Artist in Residence
2007 Duke of York’s RM School, Dover, Kent Seascape Painting Workshop
2006 Canford Magna School, Wimborne, Dorset
2006 Cranborne School For Girls, Dorset Cornish Landscape Painting
