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SIMON
QUADRAT P.P.R.W.A., N.E.A.C. (born 1946)
“Five
Beakers”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. Signed
12” x
15 ¼” (305mm x 388mm)
Overall
framed size 16 ¾” x 19 7/8” (425mm x 505mm)
Framed
under glass IMAGE IMAGE
Simon Quadrat was born in London in 1946, his parents having fled
Nazi Germany prior to World War II. Like his mother, Quadrat is a
classical pianist. He obtained a law degree at Bristol University in 1967
and was called to the Bar in 1969. He was a Member of the Inner Temple
until 1985, from 1985 to 2000 in chambers in Bristol and he appeared regularly
at the Old Bailey, then on the Western Circuit. Quadrat had always
painted and by 2000 resolved to do so full time. He completed a foundation
course at the Slade Summer School with teachers including Jo and Nick Volley
and Nathan Cohen. From his schooldays he looked at and read about all
schools of art from the early Renaissance to modern abstract art. “What
fires me is real painting – Piero della Francesca, Velasquez, Manet and
Kiebenkorn, to name but a few of my influences. My main themes are still
life painting and urban, often industrial landscapes, based on occasional
sketches, memory or imagination. These are rooted in my interest in the
so called metaphysical possibilities of still life, art of the ‘50s and
my own memories of childhood.” From 2000 to 2002 Quadrat took part in
mixed shows in the Bristol area, in 2001 winning the Institute of Directors
Prize at the Royal West of England Academy and was for a time its
President. He also became a Member of the New English Art Club. In
2003 he was one of four painters in a still-life show at Lynne Strover Gallery,
Fen Ditton with a successful solo exhibition with JHW Fine Art at Gallery 27,
another in 2005. Further one-man exhibitions took place in 2004 with
Lynne Strover and at Six Chapel Row, Bath and Quadrat’s pictures were included
in a mixed show at Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester, the Russell
Gallery and Panter and Hall, London.
