Simon Davis (artist)


Simon Davis is a British portraits artist and comics artist. In comics he is known for his fully painted art work for 2000 AD on "Sinister Dexter", "Sláine" and "Stone Island". Later in his career he became a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and he has produced prize-winning fine art for the National Portrait Gallery.
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Biography

Born in 1968 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Davis attended Alcester Grammar School, before gaining a "Diploma in Technical illustration" from Mid-Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa in 1986. He subsequently studied illustration and graphic design at Swindon College of Art and after graduating in 1988, he worked as a graphic designer and freelance illustrator of books and magazines for the next five years before moving into comics work in 1993/1994.
Davis lives in London.

Comics

Davis has largely worked for the UK anthology 2000 AD. For that publication, he has been a major contributor to the Missionary Man strip with writer Gordon Rennie, and to Sinister Dexter with Dan Abnett. He painted the Sinister and Dexter duo's first full-length story, "Gunshark Vacation", described by then-editor David Bishop as "a big fat hit". He has also been the sole illustrator on a number of recent stories including Black Siddha and Stone Island. His work has been published around the world, most notably in the UK, US and Germany.

Portraiture

As a painter of "contemporary figurative paintings" and portraits, mainly in oils, he is a member of both the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, exhibiting at a number of British art galleries, including the National Portrait Gallery.

Awards

Davis "won the Tanner Charitable Trust Prize in August 2004 with his contemporary painting, 'Sarah and Rosie'," at the RBSA, repeating this win two years later. He won "a prize in the RBSA Open Exhibition for a portrait painting of the BBC Midlands presenter Shefali Oza" in 2005, and in October 2006 won "the Coley Tilley Prize for a portrait painting 'The RSC Wig Mistress'." In 2008 he won second place in the BP Portrait Award for his painting of Amanda Smith.

Other work

Davis also works on storyboarding music videos by Muse and Tori Amos and TV adverts for Barclaycard, Levi's and the BBC, for whom he has also provided "illustrations for the BBC "Cult" Website."

Comics

Comics work includes:
  • Missionary Man :
  • * "The Undertaker Cometh"
  • * "Treasure of the Sierra Murder"
  • * "Mississippi Burning"
  • * "The Big Sleazy"
  • * "Missionary Man: Prologue"
  • * "The Promised Land"
  • Judge Dredd:
  • * "Compassion Fatigue"
  • * "The Trial"
  • * "Survivor Type" Sinister Dexter :
  • * "Wish Upon A Czar"
  • * "Gunshark Vacation"
  • * "Murder 101"
  • * "Lyrical Bollards" )
  • * Eurocrash collects:
  • ** "Eurocrash"
  • ** "Exit Wounds"
  • ** "Life Behind Bars"
  • * Money Shots collects:
  • ** "Feeding Frenzy"
  • ** "The Man in the Ion Mask"
  • * "The Off-Lode Experience"
  • * "Get Shirty"
  • * "Junk Bond"
  • * "Five Go Postal in Downlode"
  • * "Dunce Macabre"
  • * "Slow Train to Kal Cutter"
  • * "...and Death shall have no dumb minions"
  • * "Festive Spirits"
  • * "The Last Thing I Do"
  • Outlaw: "Deadliest Man Alive"
  • Vector 13: "Case Ten: Case Closed?"
  • B.L.A.I.R. 1:
  • * "B.L.A.I.R. 1"
  • * "Blair Force One"
  • * "Criminal Record"
  • * "He Died with his Boots on"
  • "Unearthed Remains" Downlode Tales: "Lock and 'Lode"
  • Tales of Telguuth: "The Eternal Bliss of Zebba Horath"
  • JLA: Riddle of the Beast
  • Black Siddha :
  • * "Bad Karma"
  • * "Kali Yuga"
  • * "Return of the Jester"
  • Stone Island collects:
  • * "Stone Island"
  • * "The Harrowers"
  • Ampney Crucis Investigates :
  • * "Vile Bodies"
  • * "The End of the Pier Show"
  • * "The List of Ten"
  • * "The English Assassin"
  • * "The Entropy Tango"
  • Damnation Station :
  • * "To The Dark & Empty Skies"
  • * "A Bone to be Chewed"
  • * "Even Heroes Fail"
  • Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles :
  • * "A Simple Killing"
  • ** collected in:Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Book 1, hc, 112 pages, January 2015, )
  • * "Primordial"
  • ** collected in: Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Book 2, hc, 112 pages, January 2015, )
  • * "Psychopomp"
  • * "Red Branch"
  • ** collected in: Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Book 3, hc, 101 pages, February 2017, )
  • * "Archon"
  • ** collected in: Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Book 4, hc, 96 pages, August 2018, )
  • Thistlebone
  • * collected in: Thistlebone Book 1, hc, 64 pages, April 2021, )

Covers

Cover work includes: