John Sims
Flat 2. 35/37 Tontine Street
CT20 1JT Folkestone
Großbritannien
07577820054
http://www.johnsims.yolasite.com
Kunstart: Zeichnung
Technik: Pastell
Stil: Moderne
Statement:
England to Cyprus and back again.
Dreams and Mythologies
When I arrived in Cyprus, late September 2007, I was principally a stone carver and a maker of measured life drawing that informed my carving.
Now three years on I am still working with stone but also with found objects, timber, twigs, kebab sticks, colour and oil pastel.
The main change has been the variety of materials that I now use to make sculpture and scale. I have become increasingly interested in making work that is either around life-size or half life-size with found timber. Or miniature, as is the case with the kebab stick and twig works, I no longer work from measured drawings, these figures are more intuitive, though still often based on measurements taken from my own body.
My drawing has also changed from painstakingly detailed work as an illustrator through to measured observational drawing from the life model to the more instinctive oil pastels. I use them as stubs, almost my fingers...it feels somewhat like carving in colour.
More often than not, they are derived from mythology, ancient archaeology, dreams and increasingly day to day events, meetings and places. This is very evident in the oil pastels produced during 2009/11.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Born 1952, Canterbury, Kent, England
1969/72, Studied Graphic Design and Illustration, Folkestone School of Art
Worked as a Graphic Designer/Art Director and Illustrator for children\'s book publishers and advertising agencies in London, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Began stone carving in 2000 and in 2002/06 gained a BA Fine Art, Sculpture, degree at Canterbury Christ Church University.
2007/08 Artist in Residence and Post Graduate Student at Cyprus College of Art, Lemba.
2008/09 Post Graduate Tutor, Cyprus College of Art
2009/11 Working artist, Folkestone.UK
My work is derived from the human figure, landscape and increasingly mythology. Ovid\'s \'Metamorphosis\' and the use of these myths throughout art history. For many years I have been fascinated and inspired by Cycladic figurines, archaic Greek and Egyptian sculpture.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
I have exhibited in numerous locations in England including Canterbury Cathedral and St. Augustine\'s Abbey
One man show, Lemba Gallery, Cyprus
Summer Group Show, Larnaka, Cyprus
Carvings and Oil Pastels in galleries in Nicosia, Larnaca and Limasol, Cyprus
Sculpture and Oil Pastels in numerous galleries in the south of England
Online work at www.johnsims.yolasite.com
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Beach Encounter...from Poussin to De Kooning
Malerei
Ölmalerei
28 x 43 cm
2011
Preis: 800 Euro
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Lamentation for a small Christ
Zeichnung
Pastell
28 x 43 cm
2011
Preis: 800 Euro
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Elysian Field
Zeichnung
Pastell
30 x 30 cm
Preis: 500 Euro
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Three Girls and an Angel
Zeichnung
Pastell
30 x 30 cm
2011
Preis: 400 Euro
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Pasiphae and her Lover
Zeichnung
Pastell
28 x 43 cm
2011
Preis: 800 Euro
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Athena and the Persians
Zeichnung
Pastell
28 x 43 cm
2011
Preis: 800 Euro
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Dance to the Music of Time. Playing with Poussin I
Zeichnung
Pastell
29 x 29 cm
2011
Preis: 400 Euro
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Bachannal, playing with Poussin
Zeichnung
Pastell
32 x 47 cm
2011
Preis: 400 Euro
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Smoking Girl, Friday Night
Zeichnung
Pastell
48 x 32 cm
2011
Preis: 400 Euro
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Pink Dress, Green Panties...Girl !
Zeichnung
Pastell
38 x 38 cm
2010
Preis: 500 Euro
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Little Head
Skulptur
Stein
2008
Preis: 800 Euro
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Centaur
Skulptur
Stein
2010
Preis: 800 Euro
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Asleep on Mimosa petals, Cyprus
Zeichnung
Pastell
32 x 48 cm
2010
Preis: 500 Euro
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Blue, green, white nude
Zeichnung
Pastell
28 x 28 cm
2010
Preis: 400 Euro
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Innocence
Zeichnung
Pastell
30 x 30 cm
2010
Preis: 400 Euro
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Flayed Horse Rider, after Marini
Zeichnung
Pastell
39 x 39 cm
2010
Preis: 600 Euro
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I dreamt of Pandora, kissed her then...
Zeichnung
Pastell
50 x 45 cm
2010
Preis: 600 Euro
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A Day at the Seaside
Zeichnung
Pastell
27 x 27 cm
2010
Preis: 400 Euro
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