Artists I admire:
Jhonen Vasquez: His simple style is very original, you can always tell when a comic is his and even when he has helped out with other artists’ work, you can tell it’s him. http://users.telenet.be/weloveseth/home.html
Łowca halunów: His work with black and white ink works so well and always seems to portray the exact emotion he intends it to. http://mortiferi.deviantart.com/
Kris Wilson: His work is mostly dominated by the comic Cyanide and Happiness', but his more serious work has a lot of carefully added details and they have inspired some of my writing. http://kris-wilson.deviantart.com/
Frida Kahlo: When I was younger, I had to do a report on her for my Hispanic studies. She made me rethink what beauty is and while it took a while, I grew to really apreciate her realistic approach to all her portraits. http://www.fridakahlo.com/
Ean Nelson: His work is awesome, not just because of the anatomy and character designs, but also because much of it is done with markers! Wow! http://divinedesires.deviantart.com/
Miimochi: I used to know their real name, but now it eludes me. Miimochi refuses to tell people their sex. This person is a very inspiring artist for me, because the beauty of their work. It seems almost realistic, but at the same time it’s very shiney and semi-cartoon like. http://miimochi.deviantart.com/
Ami Grunha: Most of her work is anime, but to say that she’s never influenced me would be a lie. I love the way she colors digitally. http://yao-ling.deviantart.com/
Mag?: Again, a very secretive artist. I know her by her username on deviantArt ‘131622’. She often deletes or hides her work in storage, but I adore her work for it’s semi-realism and beautiful coloring. There’s always a sense of emotion in her characters and I always feel dazed when trying to figure out who they are and what’s going on. Not abstract at all, she has wonderful details. http://131622.deviantart.com/ or http://unicornsfromouterspace.blogspot.com/
C.F.: Another traditional artist that I adore. I think this is more realism than the others and the stories she tells with her comics make me happy. Character design is also fun and I love the costumes. http://charcoalfeather.deviantart.com/
Ming: I guess I just don’t know the names of a lot of my favorite artists. Anyway, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to her. Her main artform is collage’s. She does all of it digitally and I’d like to try something like that sometime. She put’s each piece together seperately and in the end, it looks amazing. http://mingthecat.deviantart.com/
Morgana: I absolutely love dresses and they take pictures that really bring out the colors and folds of different dresses and corsettes. http://ladymorgana.deviantart.com/
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An Artists Statement by Sydney Lynch:
ARTIST STATEMENT
When I was young I loved rummaging through my grandmother's bureau drawers, enchanted by her treasure trove of costume jewelry which she kept in a jumble of tiny boxes, each with its own story. Growing up in rural Connecticut, my passions were creating and curating my collections of objects found and acquired, and, as my mother used to say, "working with my hands". I progressed from hand-loomed pot holders to making bowls out of natural clay from a local streambed, to oil painting.
While working on the Navajo Reservation midway through college I fell in love with the wide-open landscape and moved West permanently. Soon I met my first silversmiths who made me want to get my hands on some silver and start making jewelry. I finished my BFA at the University of Colorado, and after ten years of making jewelry in Boulder, I settled in Nebraska, first on a farm and then in Lincoln. I now work with three assistants and my husband, Craig Roper, who manages the business end of the studio.
My design vocabulary derives from a wide range of sources which reflect my personal interests: the natural forms of rocks and seashells that I've collected since childhood, the lines and contours of landscapes where I've lived and traveled, the rich surfaces and intriguing shapes I find in weathered areas of the city. I'm interested in tribal and ancient jewelry that illustrates the human need to arrange found objects in new and meaningful relationships.
Recently I have been working on a series of designs inspired by the subtle, repetitive forms of the flora and wild grasses of the prairie. In miniaturizing a vast open landscape by creating these pieces, I am able to focus on the details of my surroundings which might otherwise be easily overlooked.
Working with the materials is the most exciting part of the process for me. Simply put, I like making things. In my one of a kind pieces, I exercise my love of color by incorporating a wide range of colored stones in endless combinations. My other body of work focuses on oxidized sterling combined with 18k and 22k gold. It's important that my work be both sculptural and wearable. Many of my designs are abstract, leaving the wearer open to create a personal, intuitive relationship with the piece.
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