Siemon Scamell Katz

This month on 'A Geography of Colour' I am talking with painter Siemon Scamell-Katz about his relationship with colour. Siemon is a contemporary British painter, who has recently moved to France, living and working between La Soutteraine and Paris. Siemon’s practice is based on an understanding of the way humans see. In his mid-twenties, he launched a business that researched human behaviour and pioneered eye tracking, a technique which allowed him to understand how we see – and interpret what we see. Rejecting realistic painting or photography as 'a false record of experiential reality', he has discarded everything representative and iconographic. Instead, he uses his knowledge of human vision to create works that draw their viewers in, allowing them to experience the fundamental feeling of the represented landscape and the Sublime, often in a deeply spiritual way. His paintings are non-figurative, abstracted from place and landscape in oil and enamel on aluminium – his process aims to remove both the frame and the icon so that the viewer is asked to look without seeing but feeling. Links: Siemon Scamell=Katz https://siemonscamell-katz.com/ A Geography of Colour https://www.ruthphilo.co.uk/a-geography-of-colour.html Light Seconds: The Untimely Brilliance of Siemon Scamell-Katz by Shannon Forrest, Art Forum, 23 June 2023 https://www.artforum.com/slant/the-untimely-brilliance-of-siemon-scamell-katz-90774 Claude Monet, Giverny, Fondation Claude Monet https://fondation-monet.com/en/ Joan Mitchell, Joan Mitchell Foundation https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/joan-mitchell