Welcome!
Winter 2023 - I've been sitting on this email since last August, but now that the magazine is coming out, I can finally share the news...
"Dear Sylvia,
I am so pleased to tell you that your submission, CATALINA COAST, has won this year’s Riddle Fence Visual Art Grand Prize! Our editors loved the piece, and we’re so excited that you submitted it to us. "Catalina Coast" will run in Issue 50, which is a doubly exciting anniversary issue, packed with truly amazing writers and artists. The issue will be out in early December 2023."
Riddle Fence is a hub for fast-paced literature from Newfoundland & Labrador, across Canada, and around the world, unearthing the best contemporary writing and art. The magazine is published four times per year, and is full of poetry, fiction, features and reviews alongside visual art. I'm completely blown away by this award. Wow.
Winter 2023 - After some procrastinating, a lot of sorting, and tons of help from Digital Main Street, I'm happy to let you know that my online store is now live. You can shop for photographs - limited editions, framed work, or some of my latest alternative process photographs, some of which are one-of-a-kind unique prints, and some that are reprinted on fine art paper, depending on the process used to create the original work. I have also included options for purchasing gift certificates which can be used for lessons, artwork or custom printing of your own photographs. You can check it out here:
Silver Creek Photography Online Store.
July 2023 - I have just returned from my first ever foray into a desert landscape, and I have to say I was completely blown away. The big skies, the mountains, the rich colours of the hills, and the sense of nature being completely in charge inspired me in ways I had not imagined. You all know I'm a "water person"... lakes, rivers and oceans are what draw me in and inform my artistic work and honestly, the desert was not high on my list of places I'd find compelling. I was so wrong! And yet, one can easily compare a desert with an ocean or vast lake; with shared characteristics of distance, undulating forms, temperamental weather, and horizons always beyond reach, I found myself in familiar territory in terms of my photographic approach. I need to go back.
