At her core, Sydney Paige Richardson is a creator, a storyteller. Her work focuses on her emotional responses to occurrences in life. Her goal is to create work that explores emotions, bends reality, and creates new worlds. She primarily shoots in her backyard or fields near her house. Using compositing in Photoshop, she moves the subject into worlds she creates by piecing together other photographs she has taken. For her, it’s like building a puzzle that only she knows how to finish. She creates other realms through this conceptual portraiture and adds textures to give each piece a painterly, timeless feel. Her work allows others to dive into a story,
reflect on the beauty of motions, and discover the magical possibilities of where our minds can take us.
Sydney grew up in southeast Texas. She spent her childhood exploring the woods on her
grandmother’s property, taking pictures with disposable cameras she saved her allowance for, and making up stories in her head of fairies, magical portals, and other worlds that always appeared in her dreams. Always knowing she was a creator at heart, Sydney explored digital photography in 2009 and fell in love. She devoured every online tutorial she could and taught herself how to work her first DSLR and Photoshop. She began exploring nature with friends and family as her models, creating conceptual portraiture to bring her fantastical worlds to
life visually. Sydney’s work has been exhibited in galleries and online worldwide, including Art Ascent magazine, Target Gallery, Camelback Gallery, Memento Tea Gallery, Round Rock Art Center, Georgetown’s Gallery off the Square, and Treat Gallery. Sydney has published three best-selling Young Adult fantasy novels, and has her conceptual photography featured on the covers. Sydney has designed the second edition covers of these novels that will be released in Winter of 2023.
Sydney resides in Round Rock with her husband, Cody, and their two kids, Christian and Abigail, and Sydney's sister Olivia (aka Liv), and three slightly oversized cats - Mufasa, Bella Anne, and Vincent Van Gogh. Sydney and Cody were thrusted into becoming parents during at the start of the pandemic with their son, Christian, who they adopted in November of 2020. Their hearts broke even more, learning the foster care system and how broken it was not just in their community, but in their state and country – and even the world. They knew they wanted to make a change – and with that they have begun a journey to redefine what GROUP HOME means. Their plan with this is to start an organization and charity that focuses on teens in foster care and those that age out. Making a difference for teens in foster care through compassion, openness, and patience – that is their mission. They will make it clear, that family does not age out. They know it is just a small change they can make within their community. But their hope is that it grows and changes lives for the better here in Texas, nationwide, and world-wide. Their kids, Christian and Abigail, will be joining them in creating this – because it is important their voices be heard, as they have lived in this broken system.
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Sydney's portrait above is by Obsidian and Blush.
