My work is concerned with meanings in social narrative – incongruous, ambiguous, awkward, humorous, absurd, political or mysterious, even meaningless. I love the power of the narrative image. Sometimes I paint portraits in oils or make watercolour landscapes, but my main practice is on paper with pastels, inks, watercolour, conté crayon and charcoal. I also draw prolifically in sketchbooks – probably what I do most of.

Gallery (click to view)

Biography
I studied at Fine Art at Harrow School of Art and Portsmouth Polytechnic. I was a railwayman for a number of years before becoming an arts administrator and a music manager. By the time I was forty, and for the next twenty or so years I was a full time illustrator and cartoonist, working freelance for a broad range of newspapers and magazines. Political cartoons for the Guardian, finance cartoons for the Mail, covers for the Spectator, caricatures for the Solicitors Journal and so on.

Exhibitions & Projects
2024 Shortlisted for the New English Art Club open at the Mall Galleries, London
2023 Published ‘How Far is the Sea?’ An illustrated collection of stories from a seaside B&B
2021 Suffolk Open Studios, won a prize! in the online exhibition
2019 Shortlisted “Artist of the year” by Artist and Illustrators Magazine
2016 Joint exhibition in Aldeburgh, titled ‘Incongruous’, with ceramicist Ann Lee
Selected for Mall Galleries portrait exhibition in 2012
Selected a number of times for The Image Illustration Annual. (The Best of British Illustration)
I have been exhibiting with Artworks East since 2022 and Ipswich Art Society since 2018.
I teach spring an autumn life drawing classes at the Old Ipswich Art School.
I am a member of Suffolk Open Studios and Ipswich Art Society and Artworks.

Instagram: @farrtoon
Email: farr@simonfarr.co.uk
Website: www.simonfarr.co.uk

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