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About the Work

Heavily influenced by images and symbols of various global spiritual practices, Simon Gouverneur's work studies the relationship between language and mysticism. Working in egg tempera, acrylic, and oils, his work contains saturated colors, rigorous geometric patterns, numbers, letters, and readily identifiable symbolic motifs, like spirals.
_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records; description written by TK Smith}

Gouverneur wanted to be present at all times in his work; he believed his signs and symbols were both timeless and loaded with meaning.

No matter how ancient the source, he both preserved and transformed the signs and symbols into his own visual language…His vocabulary included floral shapes, mandalas, spirals, grids, concentric circles, letters and numbers, as well as a stylized Egyptian solar boat and other arcane images. Symmetry and asymmetry coexist, with neither predominating.

Gouverneur does not apologize because his paintings are replete with esoterica. Why should he? Isn’t [it] time we gave them a longer look?
_{—Excerpted from https://hyperallergic.com/46537/simon-gouverneur/, accessed 6-23-2021}