Sima was born in the Ukraine in 1954. A graduate of Moscow State University she has been painting since 1980 and has taken part in numerous prestigious exhibitions. She works in an unusual painting manner on wooden boards creating colour-saturated pictures with a great sense of humour and grotesques combined with deep lyricism. She is a London-based artist since 1990.

Works are in the private collections in Germany, France, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, USA, and Russia.

PUBLICATIONS

Soviet Land Magazine, No 7, April 1987
Ogonyok Magazine, No 35, August 1988
Decorative Art Magazine, No 1, January 1989
The European Newspaper, No 71, September 1991
Jewish Chronicle Newspaper, No 6464, March 1993
London Courier Newspaper, April 1999
Russian UK magazine, February 2017
Zima magazine, July 2018
Pulse UK, January 2020