Simon Lee Robson

Neon Ancestors | 2025

Simon Lee Robson reimagines the silent skulls of prehuman history as luminous icons of the present.

Each work fuses the raw, primordial forms of our earliest ancestors with the charged intensity of contemporary pop aesthetics, collapsing millions of years of evolution into a single, radiant encounter.

10 artworks

Visual lineage

At the core of the collection is the original acrylic image, Origin, released as a hand-signed limited edition and serving as the source work for the series. From this foundation emerges its Negative twin, followed by a sequence of Neon iterations, each also a hand-signed limited edition, meticulously calibrated in colour, light, and presence.

Together, these works form a deliberate visual lineage, tracing a passage from bone to signal, from relic to icon.

These portraits do not memorialise the past; they activate it. Ancient forms are reawakened as beacons, asking us to confront the origins of humanity through a lens that is at once contemporary, electric, and unmistakably alive.

About

Simon Lee Robson

Originally from the quiet wilds of rural North Yorkshire, England, and now based in the leafy suburbs of North West London, Robson is known for his dreamlike, thought-provoking imagery that invites viewers to explore new dimensions of perception and imagination.

Robson’s work features in private collections both in the United Kingdom and internationally.

His most recent collections at Arte Delux include Canvas Vault Part 3 | 2025 and Masterpiece Studies | 2025.

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