Simon Monk Art

Artist Simon Monk's "Trapped In Bags" pieces arose from his interest in scale and representation. Despite being depicted exactly life size, the subjects themselves present a dislocation of scale characteristic of toys and models, ranging from enlarged insects to radically miniaturized dinosaurs. Each painting is slowly and gradually built up from many thin, translucent layers of paint over a number of months, and the subjects are painted directly from life rather than photographs in an attempt to represent the subjects with simple clarity and truthful illusion.