Simon’s wood and steel sculptures are very much influenced by the rich and varied layers of his life and his surroundings – his childhood, time spent working as a shipwrights assistant, the sea, engineering, history and mythology – drawings and thoughts collected over many years in the piles of black and grey sketchbooks that fill his home and studio in Wales.

Before I Assumed a Consistent Form, takes its title from a translation of the beginning line of medieval Welsh poem Cad Goddeu (English: The Battle of the Trees) from the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin.

I have been a multitude of shapes,
Before I assumed a consistent form.

Like Trigger's Broom this title denotes the rich and multi-layered path from which the sculpture has been formed both in terms of the materials used in its making, to the thoughts and experiences of its maker. Talking about working with found objects in his sculptures Simon said:

"They’re the things around us that reflect our lives – as material for art they are beyond their original use or broken pieces that are free to use in another guise. Found objects harness the instinctive childlike response to anthropomorphize – to give a new life to a fragment and to enjoy sharing the recognition of that translation with other people or the pleasure of disguising it from them. Taken out of their original context found objects provide powerful abstract elements."