"I see my work within the English landscape tradition, inspired by artists such as Cotman, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious. Landscape appeals to me because it offers space for reflection and a wealth of motifs that can become visual metaphors for experiences in life: the path, the harbour, the rocky place.  I try to select and emphasise these elements in order to convey what it is that particularly excited me."

Simon Burder graduated from Exeter College of Art.  He was awarded a French Government Scholarship to study lithography at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.  He has continued to work primarily with stone lithography and has shown regularly in Britain and abroad, notably in the British International Print Biennale, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Royal Watercolour Society, the National Print Exhibition, where he was awarded the Birgit Skiold Prize, the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, the Morandi Museum, Bologna, Italy and most recently in the Lessedra World Art Print Annual Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, 2006.  He was commissioned to make a stone lithograph for the Workshop of Words, Sound and Images, one of the permanent exhibitions at the British Library. He set up Oaks Editions Lithography Studio, at Oaks Park, Sutton, Surrey and, with Kate Wilson, the Oaks Fine Art website. 

His first artist's book, 'Limekilns', a collaboration with the poet Michael Symmons Roberts and published by the Redundant Press, has recently been completed.  A copy has been purchased by Cambridge University Library.

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

Link to catalogue essay