A much-loved painter who taught in Coventry for more than 30 years is being remembered in an exhibition celebrating his life, that also offers a chance to reunite some of his subjects with their portraits.
Simon Gee, originally from Walsall, died in March and “didn’t want a service, as such”, said friend Mark James, “but he was always up for a party”.
The show – which will raise money for the Myton Hospices charity – will run for a month at pub Twisted Barrel Brewery in Coventry.
Many of his paintings were of people he did not know, “or had collared in a pub somewhere”, James said. “He would never exhibit in an art gallery, always a pub.”