Simon Hitchens was born in 1967 and studied at the West Surrey College of Art and Design and Bristol Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design until 1990. Hitchens sculptures are about presence and absence.He works mainly with stone but sometimes combines it with clear resin. The quality of these two being mixed together help him with the optical effects found in his use of crystal-clear medium. In his abstract stone sculptures he carves, shapes, and polishes each piece individually by hand. “Hitchens's clear cast resin sculptures are expressions of the qualities of the material. These symmetrical capsules or cylinders... suggest hermetically sealed capsules of elixir, purified air or water, held in suspension. They appear to be otherworldly, having a beauty and tranquility”
Coastline, 2006Granite, resin, metal halide
400 x 110 x 77cm
From dawn until dusk, 2008Granite slab
550 cm tall
The basis of silence, 2003Glass, paint
64x 40 x 40 cm
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