Photograph of Artist JOHN SIMS
JOHN SIMS
Chartham, Kent - United Kingdom


Playing with Rubens III, Watercolour


Original Artworks (65)

John Sims; May Painting, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 After walking in the countryside here in Kent, late May, getting hot. Small oil on paper...
John Sims
Original Oil Painting, 2018
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; Heat, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Small oil on paper. . . it s all about the heatwave we have been enjoying here in the UK and my reaction to it. ...
John Sims
Original Oil Painting, 2018
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; A Place In My Head, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 20 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241 A small oil on paper painting about nothing, just an open mind letting in shapes and colours...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches)
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John Sims; About The Weather, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 20 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241 Small oil on paper painting about looking outside through a snow storm, just starting to settle the colours becoming muted and hidden...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches)
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John Sims; Dark Day Dark Place, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 20 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241 All about the dark, black dog looking over my shoulder but as always the light comes flooding back...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches)
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John Sims; Split Personality, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 20 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241 Small oil painting about feeling split, divided, shut in, shut out. Feeling cold and hot...
John Sims
Original Oil Painting, 2018
20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches)
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John Sims; The Pond, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Pure abstract from inside my head. Oil on Paper...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; Outside My Studio Window, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Not a real view but a fantasy of marks and colours. Oil on Paper...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; Dark Sky, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Thoughts about a cold dark day in January...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; January Doodle, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Making marks, thoughts about abstraction, balance, form and colour...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; January Blues, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Reaction to a cold, wet, grey day in England. Oil on paper...
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Original Oil Painting, 2018
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; Headscape, 2017, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 I sat down and painted this from inside my head. Maybe it is a remembered place, I don t know...
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Original Oil Painting, 2017
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; Have You Ever Been Here, 2017, Original Painting Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 Small oil on paper. just playing around with colour and marks...
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Original Oil Painting, 2017
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; Bathing Angels Cyprus, 2009, Original Pastel Oil, 30 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 Another Cyprus winged figure dream in Oil Pastel on Paper...
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Original Oil Pastel, 2009
30 x 40 cm (11.8 x 15.7 inches)
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John Sims; Dream Of Angels Cyprus, 2009, Original Pastel Oil, 40 x 29 cm. Artwork description: 241 An early oil pastel on paper. I often Had dreams that featured naked winged figures. In this dream that is me in the background with my sculptors mallet in the bottom left...
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Original Oil Pastel, 2009
40 x 29 cm (15.7 x 11.4 inches)
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John Sims; Coptic Storm Cyprus, 2009, Original Pastel Oil, 50 x 33 cm. Artwork description: 241 I opened the door of my room at The Cyprus College of Art and a hot strong sand laden wind blew in straight from Africa across the Med. This is a somewhat exaggerated, whimsical portrayal of the event ...
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Original Oil Pastel, 2009
50 x 33 cm (19.7 x 13.0 inches)
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John Sims; No More Lust For Leda, 2012, Original Drawing Crayon, 29 x 43 cm. Artwork description: 241 One of a series of Nature Morte bird drawings based on Greek Mythology via Ovid and 17th century Spanish still lifes. Zeus lusted after Queen Leda and disguised himself as a Swan to trick her into accepting his advances. Hence this depiction is in fact not a ...
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Original Crayon Drawing, 2012
29 x 43 cm (11.4 x 16.9 inches)
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John Sims; Heat Broke Today, 2017, Original Pastel Oil, 21 x 21 cm. Artwork description: 241 June, the heat wave broke today but humidity is high and rain storm on the way...
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Original Oil Pastel, 2017
21 x 21 cm (8.3 x 8.3 inches)
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John Sims; Imaginary Landscape, 2016, Original Watercolor, 22 x 22 cm. Artwork description: 241 Thinking about walking in Kent UK. Watercolour on paper...
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Original Watercolor, 2016
22 x 22 cm (8.7 x 8.7 inches)
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John Sims; Shepherds Delight, 2016, Original Watercolor, 30 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 Some thoughts about Sunsets in Whitstable in Kent, UK. . . Red sky at night. . . shepherds delite. Watercolour on paper. ...
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Original Watercolor, 2016
30 x 30 cm (11.8 x 11.8 inches)
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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. Oil pastel and oil sticks became my favourite mediums to quickly capture these glimpses of near reality...they are the closest I can get to actually using my fingers to draw with. Using them feels somewhat like carving in colour and they stop me from going back to the detailed work of old. My subject matter is drawn from my dreams, mythology, memory and nature. Over the past few years I have been using watercolour in a loose expressionist manner....