When I first looked at Simon Degroot's paintings my first thought was it looked like it was the artist representation of his internal feelings, as if it had to come out in one way or another and this was the result "Emotional throw up" I call it.
Having the words "throw up" by the way is by no means how I feel when I look at his work. Just to clear that up.
It wasn't until later on that I read, he sees some of his paintings as “being about spending time inside yourself and how sometimes there's something, a bit like a screaming beast inside, that's yearning to get out". This would explain why he named his self-publishing book “The Happy Mad"
I would describe his style as being childlike play of symbols and scribbles. It's something you would believe a child would do if he/she knew about playing with shading and had an interest in street art.
The local independent artist has had his work allover the place you would have seen it everyday and not know it. His had commissions from painting a whole side of a building to having a few traffic signal boxes dressed in his designs. In the past few years he's star has started to rise a bit more with several of his work been shown in Sydney, Melbourne and London.
Simon Degroot's latest show is a solo exhibition of new work called "Paper planes" (an obvious reference to his child like style and the name of one of his paintings. It's currently showing at the nine lives art gallery located upstairs of Mellinos Italian Restaurant. 330 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia. until the 11 of December 2009.
Simon Degroot's traffic signal box in corner of Brunswick and Mclachlan, Fortitude valley. Photo courtesy of 'bandido of oz' on flicker
More of Simon Degroot's traffic signal box in the corner of Melbourne and merivale st south Brisbane. Photo courtesy of 'Rae A' on Flickr
Some Photos I took at "Paper planes" opening night
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