Born in Essex, England in 1975, Simon Keenleyside has over the years become known for a style of painting that draws inspiration equally from the tradition of English landscape painting and modern abstraction. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Keenleyside has been celebrated for his masterful ability to manipulate perspective and depth of field in a personal and always recognizable manner. The artist's sources of inspiration are the landscapes of his family environment in Essex, including the banks of the Thames and the woods that he used to frequent as a child, two sites that led the artist to question ontological understanding local. Although references to landscapes remain prevalent in his work, the British artist has recently moved away from the depiction of physical space and placed greater emphasis on evoking the mental states, desires and anxieties that accompany him during his travels in the region. His intent to experiment with formalism and materials allows him to convey his visual and emotional experience to the viewer, portraying the surrounding landscape not in its natural form but in his polychromatically dreamlike vision. Therefore Keenleyside studied the possibilities of painting in even more detail, discovering new details of places already known to him and creating reverberations of memory that suggest the impossibility of their full recovery, as well as the limitations of painting itself. The artist has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the UK, Denmark, America and Italy. In 2002 he won the BOC Emerging Artist Award and in 2004 the Lexmark European Art Prize. His works are present in important collections such as the Boc group, Comme de Garcons, Hiscox plc, Mario Testino, Amlyn Collection, Marsh McLennan, RCA Collection, TI Group.