Michael Simpson review – an immolated monk and torture tables make for sinister viewing
Every painting by Michael Simpson presents an opportunity for the mind to race ahead, to imagine scenarios. Now in his 80s, his paintings are an unpeopled theatre of objects and allusions. For a long time they have intrigued me. There is something insistent, disturbing and highly individual about his art. With a few plainly described objects casting their scant shadows on the oil-painted surfaces – ladders, steps and portable ramps, vertiginous stairs, stools and benches, office chairs and
Source: wn.com
