Sydney Herndon

We are so exited to share the cold colors and striking portraits from Syndey Herndon! Combining traditional oil paint techniques and digital painting, she creates work exploring Sydney women’s state of mind in an ever changing society.

Herndon was born in Russellville, Kentucky. She graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2018 where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting; she has shown ins the Juxtaposition Group Show at Art Juxtapose in Rosendale, NY, Still Life by Our Women Before Us in New York City, the US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2019, where she placed first in professional painting and The Women in the Arts Exhibit in Bowling Green, KY.

She shares more about her work:

Using symbols and bright colors in contrast with traditional portraiture, my work explores the various mental states of women in today’s society. The portraits rely on the imposition of specific symbols and the unease of heightened color to convey what the subject is actually feeling. These symbols offer insight into mental worlds of the subject & subconscious. My work explores the “face” that women put on in order to hide what lies beneath the surface of their expression. Negative feelings such as anxiety and depression are manifested on the canvas’ surface, bringing to light what the subject is going through. The use of bright colors is both an indicator of what sits behind the presented self and offers another way for the paintings to try to distance themselves from such negative feelings.

Find Sydney at her website and Instragram

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