About Simon Zekaria

Hello and welcome!

My name is Simon Zekaria - I am an award-winning British artist based in London in the United Kingdom, producing original fine art in oil paint.

I am drawn to the school of impressionism in my artwork; using broken color and painterly, textured brushstrokes to capture light and shadow. My aim is to spontaneously render the feel and atmosphere of a place or subject, at a certain moment of time, through impressionist art.

In terms of my art education and learning, I studied life drawing and landscape painting at art institutions and academies in London, including Camden Art Centre in Hampstead, Hampstead School of Art and Dulwich School of Art, in addition to self-taught studies.

I have also studied in the UK and internationally under the tutorship of a roster of award-winning artists.

I have exhibited in prestigious shows including the summer exhibitions of the Gallery of Green & Stone and the Chelsea Arts Society in London.

My work is held in private collections around the world.

Welcome to my shop!

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"My enjoyment of painting is the process as much as the end result. It is about finding the subject and letting it emerge. I enjoy the surface created, the brushwork and the differences between lean and fat paint. I want the painting to read from a distance as reality, but close up to be a series of painterly marks. I like to work with a limited palette, adding a few bright lights for emphasis" 

Simon Zekaria


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AWARDS

Painting prize awarded by the Hampstead School of Art (HSOA) 2024

Awarded 'Honorable Mention' by US PleinAir Salon of PleinAir Magazine 2024

Winner of the Principal’s Art Prize, awarded by the Hampstead School of Art (HSOA) 2023

Commendation awarded by the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI), Paint Live Plein Air Competition 2022

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Green & Stone Gallery Summer Exhibition 2024

Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition 2024