"Octopus" Painting
Painting, Oil on Canvas
19.5 W x 27.6 H in
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Oil painting depicting an orange octopus on a blue background, mounted on a stretcher frame.
Year Created:
2021
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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Rarity:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
19.5 W x 27.6 H x 0.1 D in
Ready to Hang:
Not Applicable
Frame:
Not Framed
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Certificate is Included
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Turkey.
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Simon Houlton is an English painter, novelist, and poet currently based in Eskişehir, Türkiye. Working across paint, prose, and verse, his practice is an uncompromising, multidisciplinary endeavour, driven by an unvarnished exploration of human vulnerability, psychological isolation, and working-class friction.
Author of the novel The Night Swimmer as well as Stutter & LiSp, a combined collection of poetry and paintings, Houlton brings a raw narrative depth to his visual art. Grounded in an autodidactic DIY punk ethos, he abandoned formal art school in the 1990s to carve his own path. Following a twenty-year hiatus, his return to the canvas and the page carries a deliberate, intensified focus fueled by a lifetime of hard-earned experience.
His visual work is physical, intuitive, and scratchy, utilizing heavy impasto, raw canvas, splashes, smears, stark text, and bold black lines to confront uncomfortable internal and social truths. Rejecting technical perfection and traditional formulas, Houlton uses both the canvas and the written word as direct tools to evoke visceral reactions and examine the complex, hidden depths of the human condition.
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