Simon Davis

Simon Davis (born 1968) is a British portraits artist and comics artist. In comics he is known for his fully painted art work for 2000 AD on "Sinister Dexter", "Sláine" and "Stone Island". Later in his career he became a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and he has produced prize-winning fine art for the National Portrait Gallery.

Biography Born in 1968 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Davis attended Alcester Grammar School, before gaining a "Diploma in Technical illustration" from Mid-Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa in 1986.

Davis lives in London. He has also been the sole illustrator on a number of recent stories including Black Siddha and Stone Island. His work has been published around the world, most notably in the UK, US and Germany. (appointed as an Associate member in 2004, and full member in 2005) and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (from 2007), exhibiting at a number of British art galleries, In 2008 he won second place in the BP Portrait Award for his painting of Amanda Smith.

Other work Davis also works on storyboarding music videos by Muse and Tori Amos and TV adverts for Barclaycard, Levi's and the BBC, for whom he has also provided "illustrations for the BBC "Cult" Website."