Series Spotlight - Simon Antony Wilson

Simon Antony Wilson: Fabstract — A Digital Dance of Light, Land and Imagination

Born in Bradford, England in 1967 and now living on Portugal’s wild Atlantic coast, Simon Antony Wilson paints landscapes, not with brushes or oils, but with light, texture, and digital nuance. Nestled in the heart of the Costa Vicentina National Park, Wilson draws deep inspiration from the untamed cliffs, rolling mists and shifting tides surrounding him; immersed in a love of wilderness kindled long ago in the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District.

Trained in graphic design and illustration at Art College, and schooled privately in the delicate art of watercolour, Wilson carved out a long career in design and branding, but it is in his fine art creation of Fabstract where this creative soul fully unfurls.

Fabstract is Wilson’s poetic exploration of space, mood, and memory; a series of digital paintings that capture not just landscapes, but the atmosphere that lingers within them. In works like Disruptive Silence, Moor End, Sea View, The Sea, Water Babies, and Winter’s Grip, he conjures moments that feel both ancient and current, where the light hangs heavy, and time feels suspended.

Each painting is hand-wrought layer by layer, stroke by stroke, using traditional techniques transposed into the digital realm. This is not graphic design, nor AI-driven art, but a meticulous, painterly process infused with decades of visual storytelling.

In Fabstract, there is vastness and intimacy, drama and stillness, a world half-seen, half-imagined. These are dreamscapes of earth and weather, where edges blur and mystery thrives.

Simon Antony Wilson invites us to join him in a dialogue between place and perception;  between the physical and the abstract. Through Fabstract, he doesn’t just depict the scenery; he distils its soul.