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Simon Drew was born in Reading in the 1950's and was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire. He read Zoology at Exeter University, and trained as a teacher at Reading University before teaching for five years in West Sussex. In the 1980's, Simon and his partner, Caroline, left eaching and set up their own gallery in Dartmouth, Devon.

     Ever since then, they have sold Simon's original drawings and illustrations alongside work by some of UK's best ceramicists.

     Simon's pen and ink drawings using plays on words in his inimitable, quirky style  have become well known.

     He enjoys portraying everyday objects and animals in environments you would never expect to find them - hens on breakfast tables; runner ducks in Indian headdresses; birds bunched together in the shape of an apple. But he doesn't cartoonise the creatures as he's keen to depict animals with biological accuracy. His drawings are precise. Minutiae and draftsmanship are important to him.

     There's offbeat humour in much of his art. He has a keen sense of the ridiculous and life's inconguities. At his most lightheartede lighthearted side of his output has led him to produce a range of greetings cards and prints as well as originals, This website shows many of those originals.

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Some of Simon's originals are also exhibited at the Chris Beetles Gallery, 8 & 10 Ryder Street, St. James's, London, SW1Y 6QB. Tel: 020 7839 7551

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