![]() Then one evening, walking along the coast one he came across a bay with the moon rising over it and he began to paint the night view, inadvertently finding a continuity with his Paddington street paintings from the spring. Solitude alone wasn't enough: "it was such a pretty place I didn't really see anything I wanted to paint.". Commenting on his daily routine he remarked ".in some ways it doesn't matter where you are.you do a lot of exploring in your mind when you are on your own.". He brought his materials and supplies, moving there in October 2020 and staying until the end of the following year. ![]() With less than ten houses, no shop or bar and one fisherman (who was also the self-appointed Mayor), the remote location seemed an ideal spot to work. He was lent the use of a room in the fishing village of S'Estaca on the rugged, north coast of the island. Leaving London in the summer of 2020 Simonon travelled to Mallorca intending to focus entirely on his painting and live in isolation. "Come the evening the street lamps would illuminate the narrow houses, it became a theatrical set, and in some ways it is as if you have gone back in time. Seen on his evening promenade’s, paintings like 'The Row' and 'Vermeer's Daughter' evoke the subtle drama played out behind the curtains, contrasting with the profound stillness that transformed life in London during the spring of 2020. Often painted at night and lit by street lights, the narrow, terraced houses become intimate stage sets for people's daily lives. The first is a series of paintings made close to Paul's studio in Paddington and reflecting the empty streets he encountered during those first months of isolation in London. From the start of the first lockdown in 2020 and over the course of the next two years, artist and musician Paul Simonon chronicled his surroundings through two very distinct and contrasting bodies of work.
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