About Simon Whittle

I have been an artist for about 40 years, but rarely full-time. I have always painted and I am also a printmaker. I run London's largest life drawing group and exhibit regularly at the Mall Galleries in our Society shows. I am a figurative painter specialising in the female figure. I love the play of light over skin and fabric, the forms and curves of the model. My paintings celebrate the beauty I see in my models and have a sensuality and eroticism that comes from them and the way they pose. It is a collaborative process as we work together to get a look we are both happy with. I paint in acrylic which I love for the strength of the colours and the way I can build them up in thin layers.