Born in Belfast, Simon McWilliams trained at the University of Ulster and then at the Royal Academy Schools in London. An award-winning artist, his paintings can be found in many of the major collections of Irish Art today.

"He takes his immediate urban surroundings as his subject, through superb draughtsman skills and richly textured layers of paint he produces images that carry the conviction of an observed vision but which are in fact the creation of a parallel and imagined place; emotionally charged abstractions that reveal something his own spiritual relationship with the places that fascinate him." They are also paintings that investigate the meeting of abstract and figurative elements, where colour and surface combine to sugge...