Publisher's Synopsis
Michael Simpson is Winner of the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2016. 'Flat Surface Painting' is the first comprehensive catalogue of the distinguished British artist's work to date. Rooted in a fascination with fifteenth century Venetian and early Flemish painting, and inflected by the formal restraint and reduced palette of Minimalism, Simpson has developed a distinctive, darkly comedic artistic vocabulary with which to create works that move beyond their subject matter to question the nature of painting itself.
