Sidney Sinclair Landscapes & Still life Vol.1
All artwork photography courtesy of J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art. Prices are for current artwork, and can change at any time.
Š 2014 JR Mooney Galleries 305 S. Main Boerne, Texas 78006 830-816-5106 Edited by Gabriel Diego Delgado
Sidney Sinclair Landscapes & Still Life J.R. Mooney Galleries, Boerne
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idney earned her Bachelors of Arts Degree at Trinity
University in San Antonio, Texas, with a short stint at the Warren Hunter School of Art in Texas. This fourth generation Texan has studied with international, national and regional artists. Sidney studied watercolor painting under Darryl Trott of Australia and oil painting with artists David Leffel and Gregg Kruetz of the Art Student League in New York City, among many other notables. She rounded out her studies with a stellar academic course of still life and portraiture with nationally recognized artist, galleriest and western painter, Jay Hester. Sidney`s work has appeared in American Art Review, San Antonio Woman Magazine, Country Lifestyle and Food & Leisure
magazines.
She has shown consecutively at the Alamo Kiwanis Annual Invitational Art Show, the Western Art Invitational and the Texas Hill Country Invitational at Tapatio Springs Resort, the Boerne Parade of Artist and the annual Art Walk in San Antonio. Sidney was featured at the Bright Shawl Gallery, participated in the American Heart Association fundraiser and has had one woman exhibitions in San Antonio, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her artwork is also collected by art collectors throughout the United States and Europe.
“I am inspired by the beauty of nature and the people who surround me. I paint from the heart with emotion and interpretive insight to capture the romance, the beauty and the mystery of life with passion, creativity, excitement and visual power. ..I want to ignite the imagination and innermost feelings of each and every viewer. I am thankful for this gift and the ability to share with others what has become my life's work." - Sidney Sinclair .
A cancer survivor, Sinclair works through her personal experiences with acceptance of an ephemeral life and an onward attitude in a body of artwork that pays homage to her attitude about life and the precious moments we share collectively, personally and universally. Collectible scenes that were reminiscent of Venetian/ Tuscan paradises complete with adorned doorways, paths, balconies and architecture, landed Sidney into the collections of prominent Texas Art aficionados. However, life courses outside of her control would alter her outlook and transform her artwork into a new self-reflective epiphany of sorts – abandoning quasi-obsessive detailing, she intuitively captures vast plains with feathered swatches of color; landscapes that are part dream, part referential, but wholly Sinclair. Gabriel Diego Delgado
“...Staying true to tradition, Sinclair makes sure light, romance and mystery are integral feelings depicted throughout her dreamy, hazy, airy and ephemeral landscapes.” Gabriel Diego Delgado
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GRAPES AND PEARS Oil 12” x 16” Private Collection
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n the early 18oo’s, those following the chiaroscuro (Italian for the play of light and
dark) method worked through illusionistic shading; defining the illusion of volume on a 2D canvas. As artists gravitated toward changing principles in pictorial space, they began to fully understand the portrayal of depth in fine art; no longer tied to an archaic “aspective” Egyptian modeling. However, Modernist Masters gained artistic ground in understanding this. For example, Cezanne “used a strong dark and light side to develop the illusion of volume in figures and fruit…” (Dunning, page 143, A History of Spatial Illusion in Painting) and a mixed bag of painterly swatch applications, including planar separations of color and highlights, resulting in his still-life objects coming to “life”. Sidney Sinclair’s Grapes and Pears presents a simple still-life composition of two prominent pieces of produce; the pear and grape bunches. Each of equal importance as they reflectively mock each other; battling for prominence from the viewer. Taken simply, Sinclair’s painting alludes to a simple complementary color study — purple and yellow — with the vibrant edges of color theory and the push and pull of tone, value and hue. However, that aesthetic answer is not as simple as one would guess; take a closer look at the shapes, those of the left sided grape cluster and the single pear — echo in a reverse emulation of each other. A playfully mirrored pear shape with rounded bottom and sleek neck, reflected to fit within the organic shape limitations.
On the right side, two grapes volley for compositional anchor, balancing out the triad of this arrangement. How can two small ovals kept on the right side peripheral match the impact of the left sided cluster? Sinclair intuitively makes it happen. With a textbook table edge horizon line, the soft beige and creamy cloth adds a delicate softness that juxtaposes the hard edges of the still-life elements. -Gabriel Diego Delgado
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“SERENITY” Oil 9” x 12” Private Collection
In “End of the Day”, Sinclair presents an evening’s glow with a setting sun falling behind the purplish horizon. We are greeted by a desolate mountain range that leads us into the composition, guiding us though the thicket as if we are floating spiritual beings entranced by the world around us. Thin layers of paint are caressed, whipped, and stroked; misty evocations of some region untouched by man; an obscure rendition that transcends worldly locations. This dreamy, hazy, airy and ephemeral landscape evokes unknown metaphysical and psychosomatic endurances - pains that have numbed from personal atrocities. However, gradually the artist takes our hand and we feel warmth that is that coupled with hope, peace, serenity and tranquility. -Gabriel Diego Delgado
“END OF THE DAY” Detail
Oil 9” x 12” $975.00
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“Misty Moon” Oil 11” x 14” $1050.00
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“TRANQUILITY” Oil 9” x 12” $975.00
“ASPEN SONG” Oil 20” x 24” $1800.00
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“MORNING MIST” Oil 20” x 24” $1800.00
“Feathery wisps of painterly attributes lick the
canvas, driven by nameless afflictions as Sidney Sinclair delivers an artistic pseudo-epitaph of sorts with a muted palette of color that lays claim to a new beginning – an aesthetically purposeful jump off from a road well-traveled, previously versed in despair, sickness and recovery and onto an new awaking; full of life. She gives us prize paintings via new outlooks —a hazy dreamland of internal psychology.” – Gabriel Diego Delgado
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“AUTUMN HAZE” Oil 18” x 24” $1975.00
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