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Landscapes by Boerne, Texas artist Sidney Sinclair -- Available for sale at JR Mooney Galleries
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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
can change at any time.
© 2014
JR Mooney Galleries
305 S. Main
Boerne, Texas
78006
830-816-5106
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
“AUTUMN HAZE”
As seen in the November
2013 edition
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As seen in the November 2013 edition