Sylvie Aldridge

Sylvie Aldridge spent years designing costumes for theater productions in Boston, Massachusetts, where the artist still works. Mixing pigments turned out to feel a lot like dyeing fabric, so the shift from dressing characters to painting biblical scenes came naturally, if slowly. Aldridge is self-taught and still thinks like a storyteller.

Blue, brown, beige and warm orange shape an impressionist style with abstract texture. The subjects are quiet and reflective: the Holy Family leaning together beneath golden halos, a lone cross on a hill as dawn fades from coral to sage blue, and a gnarled olive tree beside a dirt path. These three prints make up the Aldridge collection in our shop.