Marianne Simonin

​Marianne Simonin is a French artist with a studio practice in London since 1995.
She has taken part in numerous exhibitions in England and abroad. After a two year Art foundation (Poitiers,1979) she joined online courses with StudioELL (New York 2017, 2024) and with the Contemporary Art Academy (London, 2022-23).

STATEMENT
I am interested in the impermanence of time, using painting, drawing and collage to explore identity, memories and symbolism.
My latest technique involves overlaying inks, lines, pencils and colours over her work, in order to explore the many possibilities of the subconscious language.
My source of references stem from my archive of vintage and personal photos, songs and poems My paintings have a psychological or spiritual presence depending on the theme, and archetypes and symbols often filter in my work.
I use the human figure as a thread to revive emotions and childhood memories, or to make a statement about women that I admire and see as symbols of female energy. The use of black is also important in my work, and I go through phases when I can only work in this shade.

Initially an oil painter I now explore mixed media to adapt the technique and medium to my theme. This can range from flooding larg...

1977- 79 Art foundation Camille Guerin - Poitiers (France)
2005 The Royal School of Drawing (London) - Pigment
techniques with Pip Seymour
2011-16 Master in Ayurvedic Medicine (M.CM Ayur),
Middlesex University
2017 StudioELL, NYC - Developing Practice online,
independent study / mixed media
2023 Contemporary Art Academy, London - (PG1 + PG2)

AWARDS
Fusion Art, USA – Honourable mention awards (2019)
for Highways & Byways

Publications
Maison Kaywa - Issue #1 - February 2024
Heliopause magazine #2 - Dec 2018, #3 – March 2019
Spectrum magazine - spring 2002

Private collections
UK & Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Canada and Italy.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
​Exploring grief through loss. Willesden Gallery, London NW10
2023
Parsing Reality - Group show of 7 artists The Tabernacle, London W10
The Independent Hotel show, with M.M.Artconsult & Rosendale Design, Olympia. London
Art talk, the importance of creativity, London, curated by M.M.ArtConsult & The Reclaimery
2022
AAF UK, Hampstead, showing with Siger Gallery, London NW3
Touch and remember, 125 New Bond Street, London W1
30/30 - online group show organized by 12o collective
2021
From Scratch, Spitalfields studios, London E1
A thousand words, Global virtual exhibition, The curator's salon.
Auntie Freeze, Cave gallery, Pimlico, London SW1
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Salon de l'edition No1, with gallerie 379 Nancy
Willesden Gallery, London NW10 - online and in-situ
Les Nouvelles Metamorphoses, Contemporary Art festival, La Mothe St Heray (France)
Les carres 379 - Une collection. Nancy, France
30/30 - online group show organized by 12o collective
2020
The Wings assignments - online submission during Covid19
Lockdown gallery - online
High noon gallery, NYC - Election night, poetry & Art. (online)
2018
Industville gallery SE18
LAF Festival of Contemporary Art
Enshrine, St Pancras Crypt, NW1
Thames-sides Barriers, op...