Simon Edmondson was born in 1955 in London. Educated at Chelsea School of Art together with many other notable artists of his generation including Anish Kapoor and Sean Scully, he also went on a scholarship to Syracuse University in New York where he studied with Anthony Caro and Clement Greenberg among others.
Edmondson lives in Madrid since 1991. He currently shows throughout Europe, in Switzerland with Ditesheim &Maffei Fine Art and in Madrid with Galeria Alvaro Alcazar and his works can be found in collections worldwide.
A figurative painter, Simon Edmondson has produced, in the words of Andrew Lambirth 'a major painting of an interior with figures, in the great tradition of Western art, to be viewed in such company as Courbet or Matisse, de Kooning or Lucian Freud /.../ Edmondson investigates the dual nature of our existence: presence and absence, good and evil. But he makes no judgment, and specific meaning is reserved. Therein lies the subtlety of his approach.'