"Inspired by artists such as Cotman, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious, landscape is my preferred source of imagery.  Its wealth of motifs can
become visual metaphors for life's experiences: the path, the harbour, the church, the rocky place.  I hope my images are as much about how I experience the landscape, with its glimpses round corners and choices of view, as they are representations of actual places.  Lithography is my favourite means of expression, the stone itself deriving from the landscape."

Simon Burder graduated from Exeter College of Art and was awarded a French Government Scholarship to study lithography at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.  In 1995 he established his own lithography studio at Oaks Park near Sutton, Surrey, where he continues to work primarily with stone and to encourage other artists to discover for themselves the magical properties of grease and water.  His lithographs have been
selected for exhibitions including the Bradford Print Biennale, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the National Print Exhibition, where he was awarded the Birgit Skiold Prize in 2002, the Morandi Museum, Bologna, Italy, the Lessedra World Art Print Annual Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria, 'Originals' at the Mall Galleries, London, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Stone Plate Grease Water at the Museum of Modern Art for Wales, Small Print Big Impression, Leicester and  Impress 09 National Printmaking Festival Stroud. 

They are also included in the collections of institutions such as the British Library, Cambridge University Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.

Simon Burder teaches Printmaking at City Lit and at SCOLA (Sutton College) and Lithography at Putney School of Art, as well as the
stone lithography courses at Oaks Editions Lithography Studio.

Link to catalogue essay