Sax and Wine

Sylvia Thompson

E-Mail: sylvia@sylviat.com
Website: www.sylviat.com

Sylvia Thompson is a New Orleans artist who also lives part-time in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been fascinated with art since she was a young child while growing up in the New Orleans area. She graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Architecture Degree. After an internship in architecture, she went back to her passion – art. In 1995, she started her decorative painting business focusing on artistically rendered faux finishes and murals. Sylvia also continued to paint. She has donated numerous works to charitable causes and festivals.

In 2009, Sylvia’s life took a major turn. She visited the wine country of California and was so inspired by the wine country and her rediscovered relationship that she felt the need to create. Sylvia had been saving wine foils from the tops of wine bottles and loved the look and feel of them. She started using the foils in her acrylic paintings as a medium for the images. She loved the texture and dimension that the foils added to her paintings.

The subjects of her paintings range from wine themes to those based on New Orleans jazz music, architecture, and culture. Her work can be seen at Nottingham Cellars winery in Livermore, CA, the IDC Showroom in Mandeville, LA, Dutch Alley Artist Co-Op and the Great Artist’s Collective in New Orleans’ French Quarter, and Blue Heron Gallery in Napa Valley.

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