one empty bowl

Simon Wilson is a practicing artist, aspiring inventor, professional wanderer and general student of life (although he has been known to show up late for class some mornings). He grew up believing he was a child-genius, but was never quite able to prove it to anyone. Once old enough he undertook a stint at Elam Art School in Auckland, New Zealand where he stuck 702 slices of toast to a city billboard in the wee hours of a Tuesday morning and came away with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. That completed, he hitched a ride on a boat and began half a year's sailing through the happy south-pacific isles. Somehow he got stuck on the biggest island in the area, Australia. In an attempt to escape, he and two locals converted a beaten-up old white van to successfully (most of the time) run on used fish-and-chip oil, but they headed off the wrong way and ended up driving round the red desert outback for a year, stopping at every pub that had a deep-fryer out the back. Simon has worked as a door-to-door salesman, waiter, shop assistant, factory worker at the tail end of a conveyor belt, tree planter, theatre prop maker, dishwasher, office worker and website designer among other things. Whether peripatetic or stationary Simon spends his time painting, illustrating, writing and trying to devise clever new things to make his world a brighter place.

Comments and inquiries are always welcome. All work is copyright © Simon Wilson.