In 1921 the British art critic PG Konody wrote in Art in Australia of Sims’ works: ‘Whatever task Sims approaches he carries it out with keen enjoyment … Life is an eternal Arcadian holiday for him ... The key-note of his art is an intense joie de vivre. And this joie de vivre expressed in his paintings is contagious. The serene happiness of Sims’ art makes the spectator forget all the worries and tribulations and petty concerns of his daily life’.