Simon Houlton

🎨📖 Exciting News! My book has been featured in Hastings Online Times for #WorldBookDay!

The front cover also features one of my artworks.

As a working-class writer from small-town England, it means a lot to see my story reaching new audiences. Big thanks to Hastings Online Times for the support!

📖 Read the full article here

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My second solo exhibition 'Outsider', ran between 09.10.23 – 12.10.23  in Eskişehir, Turkey. I was hoping to exhibit with a fellow outsider artist this time, but unfortunately, he had to pull out at the last minute.

The exhibition included 21 Paintings all painted within the last two years. Including my latest works Outsider and Sir Ox Hat.

In terms of scope, the artworks in this exhibition differ considerably from my first exhibition ‘Windows‘. Windows was mostly a collection of self-portraits hence the name suggesting that the artworks were a window into my internal process (with the obvious exception of Women Life Freedom).

Outsider, in contrast, seeks to explore a considerably more diverse range of subjects including war (Obverser), the pharmaceutical industry (Sir Ox Hat), Suicide (Ideation), work (nightshift in the rain), societal isolation (Outsider, The Misanthrope, Bigmouth, Exile), romantic relationships (Patlican Man, Fish Bones, My Robot Heart, King of Nowhere), absurdism (Certainty, Pudding Dash), political discourse (Judge, Jury, & Executioner) and Turkey’s devastating earthquake in February of this year (06/02/2023, Anxiety Overkill).