A Journey Between Islands.
England to Cyprus and back again.
Dreams and Mythologies
My website...www.johnsims.yolasite.com shows a small selection of sculpture and drawings made during the past three years in England and Cyprus both as a student on the post graduate course and as artist-in-residence/tutor at the Cyprus College of Art. 
My life changed direction in 2002 when I left behind me some thirty years of working as an art director/illustrator to study sculpture at Canterbury Christ Church University. I completed my BA in 2006 and in 2007 I was offered the opportunity to be Artist-in-Residence at the Cyprus College of Art and be a student on the Post Graduate Fine Art Course.
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.
Upon completion of the course I was asked to stay on and help run the Cyprus Summer School and then to be tutor on the Post Graduate Course.
Now nearly three years on I am still working with stone but also with found objects, timber, twigs, kebab sticks, colour and oil pastel.
I now rarely work from measured drawings, my new sculpture is 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 recent instinctive oil pastels. I use them as stubs, almost my fingers...it feels somewhat like carving with colour.
More often than not, these drawings/paintings are inspired and derived from mythology, ancient archaeology and dreams.