Bazar Masarin 2022:1
Sydney Smith
Susanne Sandström
Who is Sydney Smith? Sydney Smith is 42-year-old boy who spends most of his time thinking about books and drawing. He illustrates children’s books mostly but spends a lot of time cooking and reading books to his two boys. How did it all began… how and why did you start making art/illustrations? It’s hard to say when and where it began. Perhaps it started when I was drawing pictures for my mom. I would hand them to her, and she would make a big deal about it, saying how beautiful it was. Or perhaps it was the first adult who encouraged me to use paint and set me up with a still life of fruit and left me alone. I can still smell the acrylic paint and flimsy cardboard. Maybe it began when I was in art school, while in a printmaking class, sitting at a desk on a sunny afternoon preparing a metal plate for etching and suddenly seeing my path ahead of me. I can’t say it was a decision I made. It was more like my calling chose me. 135
