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Sylvia Anne Edwards (30 January 1937–25 October 2018)[1] was an American
abstract artist. Edwards first exhibited her work in 1975, and would be featured in more than thirty solo exhibitions in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa during her lifetime.[1]
She left college to marry an Iranian student, Sadredin Golestaneh, who was studying to become an electronic engineer.[citation needed] Their first daughter, Shirin, was born in 1958.[citation needed] They then moved to
Philadelphia, where their second child, Nader, was born in 1960.[citation needed] In 1961, the family moved to
Tehran, Iran.[1]
Her third child, Leila, was born in 1966 in Southern Iran.[citation needed] Edwards' husband encouraged the building of a studio for her on the lower level of their house.[citation needed]
Edwards moved to Switzerland in 1975, before settling in London in 1977. She summered and painted in her studio on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.[1] She resided in England until she died in 2018.[1]
"The works of Sylvia Edwards Golestaneh have an affinity with Japanese wood-cuts and the artist has brought to realization the innate character and possibilities of watercolour: flow of colours and lines in space, poetry of shapes and themes.
This gentleness seems to touch the world and transform it, even perpetuate it in the calm pastel hues and the satisfying and warm pulse of tints which remain pure and fresh when merged, especially when they embark on a dialogue of an intimate nature.
One sees elegant vases shooting forth delicate, flowering branches, villages and traditional structures, flowering spring landscapes or those of winter covered with their silent layer of snow.
In this calm painting the figurative becomes 'tachist' or even 'cubist' but always indistinct, nebulous, gently stirring.
These gentle country themes take, on occasion, directions where one may conjure up some sort of hidden frivolity, secret and introspective which introduces into this charming atmosphere of sincerity, several passionate touches which are the subtle spice of peace and serenity."
"Her flower paintings glow as if with inner light—taking on the living vibrancies"
Mel Gooding: Arts Review, 1988
"Each time Edwards gives her kaleidoscopic mind a shake, we get a splendidly lush yet pictorially ordered glimpse of chaos. Nothing in these paintings is encoded in a private language... Rather they are unaffected celebrations of the world in its upbeat mode."