About
I'm an artist using a range of photographic techniques - both traditional and digital - to create expressive, often abstract images.
I didn't start out this way. Mine was a traditional photographic education that equipped me to be a photojournalist, and I worked for many years as an editorial and documentary photographer. I still enjoy and admire such work, but I have found my artistic voice elsewhere.
I find inspiration from a wide range of sources but as I write the abstract impressionist movement is most obviously (and consciously) influencing my work. Studying the work and words of artists including Newman, Hoffman, and Rothko has encouraged me to move away from photography's traditional boundaries. It’s not a path I tread alone. There are many photographic artists I admire who are on similar journeys, Chris Friel, Valda Bailey and Doug Chinnery among them.
Increasingly I am using art to try to understand and express my feelings about life and death. Having lost several friends and a daughter within the last few years I’ve had to confront death directly. The trio of projects: Short Stories of Loss and Hope; Before We Were Here, After We’ve Gone; and, I Am Not The Rain explore my feelings as I move through loss, uncertainty, realisation and hope. This work was published as a book by Kozu press in 2020.
Reflecting on my artistic journey, I have come to realise that, instinctively my art has moved from being an exploration of ‘other’, to one of ‘self’. My images, including those that are apparently of traditional subjects, are all an expression of my own emotions and perspectives rather than an attempt to accurately represent the thing photographed.
Find me on social media
Twitter: @siashmore
Instagram: @simonashmoreartist
Publications and Exhibitions
2023: Solo exhibition, McGillan and Woodell, Ramsgate
2023: Guest speaker, Bailey Chinnery Find Your Voice
2022: Featured gallery on Alternative Photography
2022: Exhibition: Alexander Collection, Faversham, see here for feature
2022: Biblioscapes ‘In Discussion’ interview
2021: Monologging Eye to Eye series with Jeffery F Barken, Michela Griffiths and Valda Bailey, also here.
2021: FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, Conceptual category
2020: I Am Not The Rain book published by Kozu
2020: Exhibition: Alexander Collection, Faversham
2020: Exhibition: Joint show with artist Dominic Keshavarz, Creek Creative
2019: Inside the Outside Feature
2018: Group Exhibition, Gallery 64a Whitstable
2016: On Landscape Featured Photographer