Between Fields

WYTCH is an ongoing (and ever evolving) project by myself - Syd. The scene above is from a film I shot on 8mm film 25 years ago. After leaving my bedsit in Birmingham behind, I went to live in a cottage in the middle of Exmoor, and received funding to make a short film.

In the years since, and with varying degrees of success, I have followed a meandering path with a passion for visual art (photography in particular), and a focus on pretty much the same theme as that film 25 years ago - attempting to fan the faint embers of magic that still smoulder in ancient woodlands, hollow ways, copses, oak trees, bookshops, art galleries and jumble sales.

For the last few years, I have been concentrating on painting liquid emulsion onto antique mirrors, and projecting a negative (of one of my photographs) onto the coated surface, and developing the whole mirror in the darkroom. Thus, effectively turning the mirror into a photograph. My latest exhibition, held at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, was called ‘Light Bends in Imaginary Gardens’ and featured the aforementioned mirrors.

A hoarder and creator of folk art, esoterica and the damn right weird - I now live in the wonderfully weird town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight with my partner Molly, and we would like to share our hoard with you. The shop is regularly added to, as is the new ‘Art Gallery’ section. I am currently working on putting a group show together; for artists sharing a kinship with an aesthetic that I gravitate toward - one that I’m calling ‘Acid Folk Art’. I am now gathering work, and creating new work of my own.

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