Sybil currently works and lives in Northern Ireland, but also spends a considerable part of her time in Scotland, having both lived and worked there for a number of years.

With family and friends in both countries Sybil’s connection with Scotland and Ireland is strongly reflected in her work.

The Work

Mixed media is the essence of Sybil’s work. Coming from a textile art background Sybil has always combined 2 or more different media using screen printing, oils, acrylics, dyes and or collage with embroidery.

More recently she has been exploring photography/digital imaging and is currently developing new work which incorporates elements of these newer media with oils, acrylics and printmaking to bring a new dimension to her work.

Inspiration

As always the work is inspired by not just landscape, but a deeper connection with the land and its various elements. This ranges from moody, dramatic, open hill, bog and moorland spaces – sometimes lonely, threatening, brooding, sometimes calm, beautiful, peaceful havens – to close up , tiny, abstract detail of pieces of foliage, a peat bank, a corner of a particular place or the heart of a flower.

Her style combines both figurative and abstract imagery through a play on scale, often taking one subject and interpreting this in a variety of ways using photography, drawing, painting, printing and stitching.

Themes

The same themes and subjects recur time and time again. Using the landscapes of Ireland and Scotland as her inspiration Sybil is never short of either subject matter or inspiration.

Sybil’s work expresses something about the place she is using as her subject, whether this is a mood, a feeling or a quality. Whilst the human figure rarely appears, the connection between The Human Spirit, The Human Condition and The Land is always present in her work.

In some of her current and most recent photographic/creative imaging work Sybil does use personal imagery of people close to her to reflect upon and express some of the emotion surrounding some of these human conditions.

Connection with the land and all its elements is her constant source of passion and inspiration.