Elsie Dye Sims

Coastal Continuum, Elsie Sims
Artist Elsie Sims looks to nature's cycle when creating her expressive woodcut designs. Finding inspiration from southern California's natural landscape, Sims' process draws on her own encounters with nature's transformations. Among her observations are trees clinging to eroding bluffs and the fading blooms of agave stalks, scattering seeds - allowing new life to sprout alongside the degeneration. Sims uses her technique to enhance the contrasting situations of death and rebirth often communicated in her landscapes. "Although I love drawing and painting, the powerful lines and bold gestural strokes of the woodcut process is a more satisfying representation of my mind's eye of nature," says Sims. Her latest series of large-scale woodcuts portray the push and pull of nature's course with attention to the vivid color and texture of California's coast.

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CA 1990-1994
Bachelor of Arts, Art Major
Pyramid Atlantic, Washington D.C, 1993
Printmaking Residence
Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain 1993
UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA
Children’s Book Writing, Illustration, and Publishing 1995

2013 TAG Gallery, Artist Group Show, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Beverly Hills Affaire in the Garden, Beverly Hills, CA
2005 Los Angeles County Annual Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2003-2004 Private Home Shows, Los Angeles, and San Diego, CA
1998 Pacific Northwest Art Fair, Bellevue, WA
1998 Portland Annual Art Fair, Portland, OR
1997 The Anderson Glover Gallery, “Multiples”, Group Show, Kirkland, WA
1997 The Seattle Tacoma City Hall, Group Show, Seattle, WA
1997 Anderson Glover Gallery, Pacific Northwest Arts Fair, Group Show, Kirkland, WA
1997 Pacific Northwest Art Fair, Bellevue, WA
1997 Oceanic Gallery, Solo Show, Seattle, WA
1997 Parklane Gallery, Group Show, Kirkland, WA
1997 Bellevue Art Museum Gallery, Solo Show, Bellevue, WA
1997 Northwest New Mexico Council of the Arts, Group Show, Farmington, NM
1997 The Artisan, Group Show, Boise, ID
1997 The Seattle Club, Solo Show, Seattle, WA
1997 Juan de Fuca Festival for the Arts, Group Show, Award Winner, Port Angeles, WA
1994 Colorado College, Thesis Show, Colorado Springs, CO