Paintings, drawings, and monotypes

Simon Middleton is a contemporary artist working in painting, drawing, monotype, and mixed media.

His work sits between abstraction and figuration, engaging with landscape, myth, and memory through process-led mark-making and layered surfaces.

Recent work
Earlier work

Latest work, from Instagram

View fullsize Here’s a new painting called Chanterelles, Golden and Black. It’s a hark back to my Blood Paintings series but for me also looking to a slightly different approach. Oil on wood panel. 36 x 28 cm.
View fullsize Hiding in plain sight. Monotype with wax oil pastel on paper. 297 x 210 mm on A3.
View fullsize Date for your diaries! My London debut solo exhibition starts on Monday April 20th at @coningsbygallery and guess what? You’re invited! And if you’d like to come to the private view then you’re invited to that too! Just message me.
View fullsize ‘Breaching’ Monotype with collage and wax oil pastel. 297 x 210 mm on A3 paper.
View fullsize ‘King ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.’ Acrylic monotype, wax oil pastel, graphite. 297 x 210 mm on A3 paper.
View fullsize At the centre of it all. Monotype and wax oil pastel on paper. 297 x 220 mm
View fullsize That’s fine dude. I’m not mad at you.
View fullsize Everything is provisional (Heart attack, Thorns, Rain crown, Absenting). 841 x 594 mm. Monotype, wax oil pastel, graphite, collage, on paper.
View fullsize This is a very big piece, on scrap cardboard packaging… acrylic monotype and collage. It’s 980 x 880 mm. I’m calling it ‘Sodium’.
View fullsize A new large piece: Approaches. Acrylic monotype, watercolour, collage, on paper. 841 x 594 mm.