Name: Mike Sims
Style of work: Pastels and coloured pencil
Short Bio: Mike always dreamed of going to Art college but he ended up working as a scenic designer in television. Although the two are linked he is happily retired now and able to follow his artistic interest.
Creating impressionistic images rather than photographically accurate ones gives him the opportunity to use colour in a more expressive way. Colour is life.
He uses oil paints and watercolours but currently, his favoured medium is soft pastels. The direct contact of the pastel with the paper or board, gives immediate results, which can produce exciting and unexpected surprises and for Mike, working on a larger format provides more of these opportunities.