Simeon Stafford was born in Dukinfield, UK, in 1959. As a young artist, his landscapes were similar to the gritty northern landscapes of L. S. Lowry and other northern English artists. At the age of 14, Stafford met L. S. Lowry, who encouraged him to paint. Simeon moved to Cornwall in 1996, where he met the artist's Terry Frost and Patrick Heron. Thus his northern roots fused with the influence of color and light from Frost and Heron and the magnetism of West Penwith to create an expressionism within his work, which is both powerful and alluring. Not concerned with angst and soul searching, in his own words - there is enough of that in the world of news today. Stafford's work is deeply idiosyncratic and reflects a world full of incident and accident, with splashes of vibrant color and amusing compositions. He charmingly combines reality and imagination, with many of his paintings featuring characters from his family, including Auntie Dot, the little girl who is constantly doing a handstand, Trixie, the family Jack Russell, who lived until she was 28 and is now stuffed and a resident of Simeon’s bedroom and the black seaside donkey. Widely regarded as one of the country's leading living artists, Stafford exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2001, and in 2003 he became a member of The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. His work can be found in numerous private collections, including those of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Newlyn Harbour: Contemporary Seascape Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is an archetypal Stafford painting. Cheery tugs and Cornish fishing boats bobbing about in the harbour as they busy themselves with their days routine and the townsfolk watching...
Canvas, Oil
Open Day At The Docks: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A really exiting day out for the people off to the docks to get a behind the scenes look at an environment that’s usually out of bounds. The feel of the suppressed excitement is quit...
Oil Pastel
St Ives: Contemporary Seaside Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
The holiday season is in full swing with all our favourite Simeon Stafford characters enjoying themselves on the beach amongst the transient population of tourists who flock to St. I...
Oil
Newlyn Harbour: Contemporary Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is an archetypal Stafford painting. Cheery tugs and Cornish fishing boats bobbing about in the harbour as they busy themselves with their days routine and the townsfolk watching...
Canvas, Oil
The Wharf St Ives: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A very fine offering from the artist using his style of surreal distortion to celebrate the workaday routines of the life in which he is immersed.This is a real reflection of Staffor...
Oil
Evening In Marzion: Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Work is over for the day for the inhabitants of the little Cornish town, and as the day draws to a close there's a last minute chance to catch up on the days' events and gossip. The ...
Canvas, Oil
Northern Fair: Contemporary Naive School Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Harking back to his roots in this picture Simeon Stafford has captured, in a whirling scene of colourful chaos all the elements that made travelling fairs such magical places for adu...
Oil
Marazion: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A happy day in the little English seaside town of Marazion, in Cornwall. This painting has Stafford's characters seeming to jump for joy at the mere pr...
Oil
$800
H 15.75 in W 19.1 in D 0.79 in
Girls and Ponies: naive surrealist outsider Alice in Wonderland style painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Step into a dreamlike pastoral paradise with this enchanting mid-century oil on canvas by French artist Denise Collet. Titled "Girls and Ponies," this wo...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 20 in W 24 in D 2 in
Bucks Count Farm in Winter, Landscape by Pennsylvania Folk Art Painter
Located in Doylestown, PA
Bucks County Farm in Winter is a figurative landscape by Pennsylvania Folk Art painter, Jean Halter. The 12" x 16" oil on board painting is framed and signed "Jean Halter" in the lower right. Jean Harris Halter was born in 1916 and spent her youth between Thornburg, Pennsylvania where her father oversaw Harris plumbing, and Camden, South Carolina, where they also had a home. She studied art, among other things, in Converse College. In 1939 she married Robert Halter, a musician with a traveling big band, which he quit soon after marrying. While he was gone for three years with the Signal Corps in the South Pacific, Jean took care of their two little daughters, their kennel of Pulis, and began to paint antique chairs...
Oil, Board
Mississippi River Landscape
By Saul Haymond
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Landscape Mississippi River. Saul Haymond, Sr. (1947- ) of Pickens, Mississippi is a self-taught painter who has been documenting life in the African American community in Holmes Co...
Canvas, Oil
$950
H 22.5 in W 30.25 in
Rare Israeli Naive Art Oil Painting Jerusalem Israel Old City Landscape Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
JERUSALEM, Vielle du David, (City of David) Oil painting on canvas Hand signed in Hebrew (Perlman, Pearlman or Perelman. There are numerous artists with this name. we are unsure wh...
Canvas, Oil
$132,000
H 78.75 in W 177.17 in D 0.04 in
The Last Song – XXXL Figurative Painting in Acrylic & Oil Pastel on Canvas, 2026
By Claus Bertermann
Located in OVIEDO, ES
The Last Song is a monumental figurative painting that marks a decisive moment in Claus Bertermann’s oeuvre and his first figurative work presented on 1stDibs. Measuring an imposing ...
Pencil, Oil Pastel, Canvas, Acrylic
$534Sale Price|20% Off
H 14.5 in W 10.75 in D 1 in
French Still Life with Teapot Bottle and Cup in Earthy Blue Tones
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Still Life with Teapot Bottle and Cup in Earthy Blue Tones by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Signed: Yes Size: 14.5 inches (height) x 10.75 inches (width) Oil pastel painti...
Oil Pastel, Oil
$1,191Sale Price|20% Off
H 19.5 in W 13 in
Antique American Folk Art Dog Man Woods Oil Painting Original Frame Gold 19th C.
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique American folk art painting in its original period frame. Featuring a man walking his dogs in the woods with a stunning s...
Oil, Board
$466Sale Price|20% Off
H 7.75 in W 11 in D 1 in
Sunset over the Sea, French Expressionist Original Painting
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) watercolour/gouache size: 7.75 x 11 inches Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French painter...
Oil Pastel, Gouache
$8,400
H 30 in W 40 in
"Congregation" the sun sets on the ocean, beach balls gathered on the shore
By Rob Brooks
Located in Edgartown, MA
From an incandescent sunset on Long Island Sound to an iconic pop-kitsch ice storage bin at the neighborhood corner store, Rob Brooks offers us a visual journey from the real to surr...
Oil, Canvas
$4,800
H 8 in W 10 in
"Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois" Streeter Blair, 1949 Painting
Located in New York, NY
Streeter Blair Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois, 1949 Signed, titled, and dated lower left Oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Primitive painter St...
Canvas, Oil
$2,118
H 25.6 in W 19.69 in
Terrace in Marqueyssac in Dordogne or “Shadow of their desire”
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Aude AZAÏS "The Shadow of Their Desire" - Terrace in Marqueyssac Pastel on paper (framed under glass) H. 65 cm; W. 50 cm Signed lower left - 2023 It was after seeing a small reprodu...
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
A Haitian Country Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Haitian artist Jacksin Mésidor painted this from his Caribbean coastal hometown of Cap-Haitien in the north of his native land. As Haitian folk art, the painting delivers an archityp...
Masonite, Oil
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H 48.04 in W 24.02 in D 1.58 in
Very Large, Contemporary Modern British, Cornish Naive Outsider Art of St Ives
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very large, wonderful image of this well know Cornish view painted in the highly appealing Naive style of Simeon Stafford. A swirl of activity on sea and land; a dozen different pictures contained within a glorious whole. And then, to top all this, there is another marvellous painting on the reverse of a Sea Maiden Simeon Stafford (born 1956) A panoramic view of St Ives Signed, "Simeon" lower right Oil on board 48 x 24 inches without frame 50 x 26 with frame The reverse painted with an anthropomorphic landscape...
Oil, Board
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H 15.88 in W 18.25 in D 1 in
Modern British oil painting of St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall by Simeon Stafford
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) St Michael’s Mount oil on board Signed `Simeon’ (lower right) and inscribed with title and dated `2011’ (on the reverse) 15.7/8 x 18.1/4 in. (40.3 x...
Oil, Board
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H 31.5 in W 31.5 in D 1 in
Modern British oil painting of St. Ives beach by Simeon Stafford
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) Near St Ives Oil on canvas Signed `Simeon’ (lower left), further signed and inscribed with title (on the reverse) 31.1/2 x 31.1/2 in. (80 x 80 cm.) ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 15.75 in W 22.75 in D 1 in
Simeon Stafford pencil drawing of St. Michael's bay, Cornwall, 2012
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) St Michael’s Bay Pencil on paper Signed `Simeon’ (lower right) 15.3/4 x 22.3/4 in. (40 x 57.8 cm.) Executed in 2012 Simeon Stafford was born in Duk...
Pencil
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H 8 in W 10 in D 1 in
British contemporary oil painting by Simeon Stafford 'Cambourne Rally'
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Simeon Stafford (British, b.1956) Cambourne rally Oil on panel Signed and dated `SIMEON!/14.1.21’ (lower right) further signed on the reverse of the panel 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.3 cm.) Simeon Stafford is a British Painter, born in 1956 he started painting at age 14. He was encouraged to paint by LS...
Oil, Panel
"Liverpool Docks" Contemporary Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
A strong and vibrant Stafford image harking back to his Northern roots. This depiction of Liverpool docks is lively and fun, the harbour is busy with boats, ships & people. Auntie Do...
Canvas, Oil
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H 21 in W 27 in D 2 in
"The Derby - Manchester United v Manchester City"
By Simeon Stafford
Located in ludlow, GB
Simeon Stafford – “The Big Match” Oil on Board, Signed and Framed. Simeon Stafford was born in the 1950s, in Duckinfield, a small northern town bordering ...
Oil
"Fun Fair On The Harbour Wall". Figurative Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Fun Fair On The Harbour Wall. Typical happy Simeon Stafford painting depicting a happy life in Cornwall. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.2003 Picture in e...
Canvas, Oil
Still Life: Contemporary Mixed Media Still Life Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
Simeon showing a different side to his art with this really beautiful Sill Life. Oil and canvas on board. Excellent condition. Behind glass Framed 30" x 34" Image 25" x 28.5"
Canvas, Oil
A Day In Town: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
As well as his celebrated Cornish paintings Stafford also painted a series set in London. In this picture he captures the excitement of a visit to En...
Oil
The New Baby
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
An unusual painting from Simeon Stafford. Proud parents showing off baby and blissfully happy despite the pouring rain. Once again Simeon hits the nail on the head in creating a joyo...
Oil
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H 21 in W 31 in
Sunday Afternoon, Mousehole: Contemporary Outsider Art Oil Painting
By Simeon Stafford
Located in Brecon, Powys
The harbour in the tiny fishing village of Mousehole in Cornwall England on a sunny Sunday afternoon. There's just enough room to enjoy a sheltered play on the beach before the tide ...
Oil