Artists Chris Sims

I use colour and instinctive mark-making to evoke or capture a moment in time in the rural English landscape. 

Much of my work involves a variety of techniques; painting, drawing and printmaking processes. Although not directly related to one particular scene or place, the work is rooted in the landscape, rural or urban around the chalky English countryside and also inspired by the Cornish coastline from holiday memories.

The attraction to the immediate physical nature inspires compositions, utilising mark-making and abstracted shapes, evoking and capturing an emotive place. Applying a dynamic and energetic intuitive approach, layering and adjusting, using inks, paints, charcoal and other mediums, he uses this working process to reach a point where a balanced composition emerges.

After graduating from Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1985, I worked as a graphic designer for over 25 years, but have now been painting professionally for the last 15 years and have a growing international collector’s market.

Education

  • 1980-81 - Buckinghamshire College Art Foundation Course
  • 1982-85 - Wolverhampton Polytechnic – BA HONS 2:1 Graphic Design & Illustration
  • 2002-2005 - Amersham College, PART TIME. Combined Studies – Printmaking Module

Past Exhibitions

  • 2004 - Hype Gallery – Brick Lane, London
  • 2004 - The Art Emporium – Chiswick, London
  • 2006 - Wycombe Swan Gallery - 'Inside & Out' Chiltern Arts Forum Group Show
  • 2006 - Bucks 21 Group Show – Ice Twice Gallery, Olney
  • 2008 - Artworks for Business – Stix Bar, Beaconsfield
  • 2009 - 'Four Plus One' Group Show - Origins Wine Bar
  • 2010 - Artworks for Business - John Lewis, High Wycombe
  • 2011-2015 - One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden – various group shows
  • 2013 - Affordable Art Fair Battersea
  • 2013 - Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
  • 2014 - 44AD Bucks Group Show Bath
  • 2014 - Affordable Art Fair Battersea
  • 2014 - Affordable Art Fair Bristol
  • 2014 - Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
  • 2014 - Cambridge Art Fair Bristol
  • 2015 - 44AD Gallery, Bath – Group Bucks Artists Show
  • 2015 - Affordable Art Fair Battersea
  • 2015 - Commercial Square Studios High Wycombe – Summer Show
  • 2015 - Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
  • 2016 - Affordable Art Fair Battersea
  • 2016 - Brian Sinfield Gallery – Solo Show ‘Elements’
  • 2016 - Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
  • 2016 - Commercial Square Studios High Wycombe – Summer Show
  • 2017 - Affordable Art Fair Battersea
  • 2017 - Commercial Square Studios High Wycombe – Summer Show
  • 2017 - Brian Sinfield Gallery – Solo Show
  • 2017 - Commercial Square Studios Pop Up Gallery Marlow
  • 2017 - Affordable Art Fair New York
  • 2018 - One Church Street – Clerkenwell, Solo Show
  • 2017 - Commercial Square Studios High Wycombe – Autumn Show
  • 2018 - Affordable Art Fair Battersea
  • 2018 - One Church Street – Chelsea ‘Perfectly Small’
  • 2018 - Affordable Art Fair New York
  • 2018 - Affordable Art Fair Hamburg
  • 2019 - Brian Sinfield Gallery – Solo Show