Artist Info
Charles Sims
Charles Henry Sims RA (1873 – 1928
A British painter of portraits, landscapes, and decorative paintings. Apart from his mainstream reputation, he is also considered an exponent of Outsider Art, as an artist whose work developed an idiosyncratic style through psychiatric disorder.
He enrolled at the South Kensington College of Art in 1890, before moving to Paris for two years at the Académie Julian. He moved back to London 1893 studied at the Royal Academy School until 1895 when he was expelled.
He was an honorary visitor to the Byam Shaw School of Art