Catherine Sim

Catherine Sim

Catherine Sim is a Sydney-based artist currently living in Birchgrove. Studying Visual Art at COFA in the 1990s she has been a practicing artist and educator ever since. Predominantly a landscape painter, her practice involves travelling to locations and completing watercolours en plein air then using that information to extend and complete larger oils in her Stanmore studio.

Catherine is drawn to the changing light and effect on the landscape of different weather and can often be found painting on isolated beaches as storms roll in around her or dodging flies and ants in the bush.

Urban landscapes and the tension between the built and the natural also intrigue her so her practice takes her from her backdoor on the Balmain Peninsular to remote coastlines, rivers, farmed country and bush.

Catherine has been a finalist in numerous prizes including twice in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape and Stanthorpe Regional art prizes. Her celebration and connection with the Australian landscape has led to several prestigious art residencies including the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Resident programme at the Tweed Regional Gallery.

‘Nature is painting for us day after day pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them’ — Ruskin

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Artist Portfolio…

Catherine Sim

‘GREENFIELD GULLY’

oil on canvas
600 x 600mm

Catherine Sim

‘TURIMETTA BEACH’

oil on ply panel
300 x 300mm

Catherine Sim

‘FRIENDSHIP OFF YULRULBIN’

oil on ply
300 x 300mm

Catherine Sim

‘GOLDEN GROVE OFF BALMAIN’

9x5'
oil on ply

Catherine Sim

‘BELONGIL STORMY WALK’

9x5'
oil on ply panel

Catherine Sim

‘TREPHINA GORGE NT’

80 x 45cm
oil on canvas

‘BALLS HEAD FROM BALLAST POINT’

oil on board
500 x 500mm

Catherine Sim

‘ISIS RIVER TIMOR NSW’

80 x 80cm
oil on canvas