Simeon Stafford
English artist Simeon Stafford was born in Duckinfield, a small northern town outside Manchester, and attended West Hill Boys' Secondary School, Staleybridge where he developed his deep interest in art. At 14 he won the Robert Owen School Award for Art and the Manchester News Portrait Award and was introduced to L S Lowry. Lowry then became a friend of the family and encouraged him to study art.
Stafford studied at Hyde Collage in 1972 and 1973 before becoming a professional artist in 1974 exhibiting his work in mixed exhibitions throughout the North of England and in London. At this time his work reflected the gritty northern landscape and characters in what has been called a ‘primitive’ style.
He moved to Cornwall in 1996, where he met the St Ives artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron whose use of colour and...
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