Sidney

Sinclair

LandscapesLandscapes

& Still life& Still life

Vol.1

All artwork photography courtesy

of J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art.

Prices are for current artwork, and

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Edited by Gabriel Diego Delgado

Sidney

Sinclair

Landscapes & Still LifeLandscapes & Still Life

J.R. Mooney Galleries, Boerne

Sidney 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 para-

dises complete with adorned doorways, paths, balconies and archi-

tecture, 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 intui-

tively captures vast plains with feathered swatches of color; land-

scapes 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

Next Page Oil

12” x 16”

Private Collection

GRAPES AND PEARS

In 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 2-

D 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

Oil

9” x 12”

Private Collection

“SERENITY”

Detail

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

Oil

9” x 12”

$975.00

“END OF THE DAY”

Detail

Detail

Oil

11” x 14”

$1050.00

“Misty Moon”

Detail

Oil

9” x 12”

$975.00

“TRANQUILITY”

Detail

Oil

20” x 24”

$1800.00

“ASPEN SONG”

Oil

20” x 24”

$1800.00

“MORNING MIST”

Detail

“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

Detail

Oil

18” x 24”

$1975.00

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