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Artist Statement:
Following some thirty years
working as a graphic designer
and illustrator I began stone
carving in 2000 and in 2002 I
returned to college at Christ
Church Canterbury in England
to study BA Fine Art.
In 2007 I went to the Cyprus
College of Art to study for a
Post Grad Diploma in Fine Art
under the great Cypriot
artist, Stass Paraskos. At the
end of the course I was asked
to stay on and run the Summer
Schools and to be tutor on the
Post Grad course. An
incredible experience and an
enormous influence on my work.
My work now involves less
stone carving more often found
timber or kebab sticks!
My drawing in some respects
has turned a full circle in
the sense that prior to
sculpture my illustration work
was colourful but
painstakingly detailed and
stylised. At college I
concentrated on measured
observational life drawing in
pencil which fed into the
simple lines of my mainly
figuratively based stone
carvings. Whilst in Cyprus I
re-discovered colour in both
my drawing and sculpture.
Dreams and mythology filled my
waking and sleeping hours and
oil pastel became my favourite
medium to quickly capture
these glimpses of near
reality......
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Exhibitions for John Sims:
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Summer 2005. Carving & Modelling. Two person show at St. Augustine's Abbey, English Heritage Site.
Spring 2006. Sculpture in the Cathedral. Group Show in the Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral.
Spring 2008. After the Storm. One man show, Lemba Gallery, Cyprus
Work in galleries in Nicosia, Larnaca and Limasol, Cyprus.
Summer 2008. Artists of Fame and Promise. Group Show, Gallery Kipriaki Gonia, Larnaka, Cyprus
Work in private collections in UK, Cyprus, France, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and US.
Summer 2011. 'AVIARY Predators' One man show University Centre Folkestone, UK
Online work at www.johnsims.yolasite.com
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