Building
Businesses, products and systems created around problems that feel too important—or too interesting—to ignore.
The practical workA life in motion · work · people · place
Hello, whoever you are.
Tell me what brings you here. I have lived between people, places, ideas and the businesses built to give them somewhere to go.
The life behind the work
A window, not an inventory.
I have never been one thing. I have moved through work, love, enterprise, food, animals, land and imagination, following the next point of light. Cowran is one expression of that life. It is not the whole of me.
The life around the work
The categories are useful. The life is not divided.
On screen
Modelling, presenting and the strange intimacy of being seen, including work connected to food and television.
The public selfLiving
Cowran Farm, horses, dogs, cows, Betty, the people who pass through and the places that become part of you.
The human contextLooking
The conscious and subconscious, the mystery beyond the visible, and the search for the frequency where two people meet.
The inner lifeA life, selectively shown
Nothing here is the whole story.
This is a window, not a confession: enough of the work, the place and the feeling to make a connection possible.
Ideas in Simon's own name
A place for thought and feeling that does not force every subject through a company identity.
Confidence without the sales pitch
The businesses are here as evidence of judgement, taste and a willingness to make things real.
Publication boundaryPublic, owner-directed personal and professional themes only. Private relationships, family, correspondence and commercially sensitive material remain outside the window.
The conversation remains open
If something here meets you, follow it.
The conversation can open a route into the public work, the companies and the ideas. It should feel like an invitation, never an extraction.
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