About Simon Lawson

I am a Grimsby born painter and printmaker now based in London.

Having spent many years working in collaborative printmaking studios, Alecto, LCA, Hope (Sufference) Press and Thumbprint I established Huguenot Editions Print studio and Gallery in 2005 in Wandsworth. In the same year I took on the role of Etching Tutor at the Royal Academy Schools, which I held for fifteen years. In 2020 I moved away from Huguenot Editions, returning to my autonomous roots as Simon Lawson Prints, a collaborative etching and publishing studio in Thames-Side Studios, Woolwich.

My own art education took me from Grimsby School of Art to Wimbledon and the Royal Academy Schools.

My own work has covered many subjects, using a vast array of intaglio techniques from direct drypoint observational drawings to sophisticated multiplate colour separated etchings using photographic processes. Often process led, but always observational, my work has intrinsically been rooted in our relationship with the immediate environment, both urban and rural. My most recent work is the Amelioration Series. Thes prints focus on the impact of people in their quest to make an improved society and the conflict between urban development and its ever-increasing effect on the environment. These juxtapositions are highlighted in the Edgelands, the perimeter of the urban crawl, as urban meets rural, whether cultivated or wild, where the conflict is often at its most heightened.