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Ron Sims is a fine artist and artist-printmaker based in Essex
Ron Sims has been regularly exhibiting his work, which is held in both public and private collections, for over 40 years.
For Ron the psychological implications of turning soft imagery into a hard-edge, rigid-block representation are a vital element in his work.
Ron derives pleasure from producing fine-tuned, sometimes discordant, relationships between colours and tones. The tension and conflict in Ron's colour-clashes are unified by geometric shapes and the hard edges enclosing them - creating three-dimensional effects.
The "double-take" is also an important ingredient - it is through this that Sims explores incongruous and unusual ideas.
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The Art Workers Guild
Ron has been elected as a member of the Bloomsbury-based Art Workers Guild (Oct 2011). The Guild is a society of artists, craftsmen and designers bound by good craftsmanship and design. Potential new members are makers of distinction or merit in their field - past members include architect Sir Edwin Lutyens; designer William Morris and illustrator Arthur Rackham. www.artworkersguild.org
Colchester Castle Museum
"Artist Ron Sims demonstrated four different techniques (dry point, etching, lino-cut and woodcut), creating a new type of event not seen in the Colchester Castle Museum before." Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service Joint Committee [March 2009 - report on museum events]
Royal Academy Schools, London
A well respected tutor and critical reviewer, Ron studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London, and is a current member of the Royal Academy Schools Alumni Association (RASA) Council.
Previously known as the Reynolds Club - RASA was created to maintain links between the Royal Academy Schools and its past students.
Flickr
Ron Sims on Flickr - as part of the Royal Academy Schools, alumni photostream (RASA)
Ron Sims' work relates to colour field and hard-edge imagery