Lucien Simon
Lucien Simon was born in London in 1961. He is essentially a self-taught artist, although he studied special glass techniques at Zelezny Brod Glass School in the Czech Republic and stone sculpting in Australia, and has undertaken numerous crash courses in welding, carving, painting, casting and engraving. He creates both sculptures and colourful abstract acrylic paintings on canvas.
Simon showed pieces in metal and glass at the Remo Store Gallery in Sydney, Australia, in 1989, and has since exhibited in Hakone and Tokyo, Japan; London; Newport Beach, California; New York; and Paris. Clients include His Majesty The Sultan of Brunei; BMW; Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai; Burmah-Castrol; Cho-San Centre, Tokyo; CIT Group, London Bridge Development; Glaxo Smith Kline Beecham; Guildford Town Council; Harper's Bazaar, New York; Harrods; Itochu Corporation; Nortel Communications; Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley; and Pearson Education, UK. His work was part of the Daily Telegraph winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1999.
'Creativity is endless,' he says. 'Material and media combinations are endless too. I find inspiration from all I experience in everyday life. Creating something new and exciting is a constant challenge.' Simon finds potential for this creativity in many aspects of the physical world, and in his interaction with it and with other people. His sculptures and furniture in stacked and polished glass show a marked influence of Danny Lane. However, he develops his work into different formations, for instance by combining glass with stone. Within such combinations, he enjoys how the layers of glass replicate the way in which sedimentary rock is formed, and by sandblasting parts of the glass, he also acknowledges the effect of the elements eroding rocky outcrops.