"Simon Taylor’s photoreal paintings transcend not only photography but painting itself. ."
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Simon Taylor is a photorealist artist who graduated in 1994 in Fine Art painting from Manchester Metropolitan University. Since graduating he has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions in galleries in London, Manchester, Southport and Huddersfield and group exhibitions throughout the UK, Dublin, Milan, Brussels, Utrecht, Zurich and the USA.
His paintings are collected internationally and he has works in public and private collections after winning prestigious awards including The Sefton Open Art Prize in 2006, the Winsor & Newton Painting Award at the Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London in 2023 and being shortlisted for The Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2024.