Collection: Simon Goss : Painter : Swansea

I originally studied Technical Illustration in Swansea and went on to work as a designer/illustrator for an advertising agency in Swansea, I also worked as a lecturer in analytical drawing. I re-trained as a Graphic Designer, gaining my BA (Hons) in 1997 and have been running my own design company since.

In 2011 I completed an MA in Visual Communication (Contemporary Dialogues). 

I have been painting portraits in oils for several years. At the start of the first Covid lockdown I began a project that involved painting nineteen portraits for an exhibition at the end of the restrictions. I had already started using Zoom by then, for a writing class. The viewpoint it gave me of my co-attendees sparked the idea that I could use the software to record this unusual period. I was taken by the odd perspectives I was seeing and the unguarded expressions and gestures on display in the constrained environment. It occurred to me that I could draw anyone, anywhere, from my studio in Swansea and that they would be, in turn, at ease in their home surroundings.