Simon Mcwilliams

McWilliams' vibrant, structural urban landscapes are intertwined with organic elements of smoke, and vegetation. Observed phenomena and painterly playfulness combine to produce a unique vision that is part fact and part fantasy.
Dust clouds created by ant-like workers on vast scaffolds, glitter in the sunlight taking on ghostly figurative appearances.

Victorian curvilinear palm houses provide structural containers for the vegetation-like paintwork, which creeps like ivy across the canvas, propagating textures and marks with a life of their own in the medium.

Shana Nys Dambrot in Art Ltd Magazine described his paintings as: "Evocative, wavering, dimensional, architectural, atmospheric, and chromatically paradoxical--more than depiction, these paintings rise to the level of embodiment. Self-consciously in progress, his work, like his subjects, present a metaphor for the way the modern world is changing, that change itself has become the defining quality of our time."

Royal Academy Schools London,

2012 "Shoots and Ladders" Solo show Skotia Gallery, Los Angeles.
2010 "The New Metropolis" solo show Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe.