Take an immersive walk through Simon Carter’s atmospheric new exhibition, From the Landscape, as you explore his work through poetry and nature writing.

Joining Simon on this unique guided tour, will be writer and journalist, Neil D’Arcy-Jones, the author of Essex: 40 Favourite Walks, who will be reading extracts from poetry and nature writing which, like Simon’s work, is inspired by, and embedded in, the natural world around us here in north Essex.

The tour will feature introductions from Simon at key points throughout the exhibition, interwoven with readings from Neil.

Simon Carter

Simon Carter is an Essex-based artist and curator. He studied at Colchester Institute (1980–1981) and then North East London Polytechnic (1981–1984).

In 2013, he collaborated with artist Robert Priseman to form the artist-led group Contemporary British Painting and then the ‘East Contemporary Art Collection’, the first dedicated collection of contemporary art for the East of England, which is housed at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich.

Simon is President of Colchester Art Society and has been Artist-in-residence at the University of Essex and Firstsite, Colchester. He is represented by Messum’s.

Neil D’Arcy-Jones

Neil was the Arts Editor of the Essex County Standard and Colchester Gazette for 20 years. Now he divides his time writing, walking and putting on open-air theatre shows as part of Castle Park Theatre.

About ‘Simon Carter: From The Landscape’ exhibition

For more than 40 years, Frinton-based artist Simon Carter has walked, drawn and painted the landscape around him.

“From the Landscape” brings together this long relationship with the Essex coast and countryside in an exhibition that asks us to look at painting in a different way.