NAME: Sidney Eileen
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BIRTH DATE: 2.26.78
BIOGRAPHY
Sidney is a California native, raised in the picturesque Wine Country of Northern California. The beautiful Sonoma County Coast and its farmland was a rich palate of inspiration for Sidney as a girl growing up beside her beloved pets. Sidney’s love of animals naturally afforded her an artistic muse. She attains with pencil what many cannot with a photograph. She can give a sense of being or soul to her art. The eyes of her dogs seem to laugh back at you, cats stare inquisitively out of the paper, and the furry friends of our lives are immediately recognizable. Her early love of horses lent her to hours of enthusiastic sketching as a child. This has given her an ability to capture the magnificence of these animals on paper with ease.
Through her fantasy and wildlife art, Sidney strives to bring her artistic subjects to life. She gives the viewer a glimps into some fantastic world where animals walk as people, and dragons fly through the skies. The deer looks as though it’s ready to dart back into the woods at a moment’s notice, and the wolf stares off into the distance as though deep in thought.
When Celtic artwork captured her attention, she dove into it with the same attention to detail and passion for spirit that she gives to her animal art. Through these ancient design styles, she captures the essence of each animal, depicting the graceful beauty of a hummingbird, the strength of a bull, or the spirit of a stallion. The styles of the designs are inspired equally by medieval illuminated manuscripts, Bronse-Age archaeological finds, and the world around her.
