My subjects include animals, buildings, ships, and machines but all suggest in their different ways how being alive feels: childhood, love, becoming a parent and the process of aging. In recent prints, the sense of a both a shared and solitary human journey is explored with imagery relating to rain and the sea.

I am influenced by British printmaking and graphic art from the early and mid 20th Century. I like the subtlety of much of the art of this period, which is both humorous and surreal.

Screenprint is essentially a stencil process, and produces thin layers of flat translucent layers of colour. My screen prints are made using a mixture of traditional and digital mark making processes, to create the separate layers that will be overlaid in the finished print. The layers are then transferred using a photochemical process to a screen (a fine mesh stretched over a frame) and printed by hand, using a squeegee to push ink through the mesh onto paper.

Simon Tozer

Artworks by Simon Tozer

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Night Market by Simon Tozer

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Night Barber by Simon Tozer

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Shivering Sands by Simon Tozer

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Two Small Ships by Simon Tozer

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Demeter by Simon Tozer

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Eddystone Light by Simon Tozer

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Arch and Bird by Simon Tozer

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Harbour by Simon Tozer

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Pillbox by Simon Tozer

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Airborne by Simon Tozer

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Unwanted Hair by Simon Tozer

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