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Artist profile: Sybil Stork's unexpected art |
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Written by Marissa Hutton-Gavel
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
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 When Sibyl Stork talks about her art, she does so without pretense. She’ll have you believe that her finished paintings are acts of serendipity.
She combines formal training with an idea and then she lets inspiration guide her brush. In the end, it’s never what she expected.
“I guess I like it because it’s very fluid,” she said of her watercolor paintings. “There’s a lot of magic, a lot of accidents happen that turn out better than you could imagine.”
Stork, 55, began as an apprentice at an art institute in Mexico where the vivid colors of homemade clothes and Southwest style brought the rich color combinations she uses now to light.
 “A lot of times when I’m painting it will just come to me,” she said. “Sometimes something just hits you and it resonates.”
A quiet person, Sibyl found that her studio time suited her better than anything else. She can sit and be herself, on paper, to the tune of whichever beat she is feeling that day.
Everything from Simon and Garfunkel to Norah Jones plays in the background in her home studio as well as in her classroom.
“One day I played Gypsy Kings, and this woman started painting really fast — it brought something out of her I had never seen,” she said.
Bringing out the hidden artist in everyone from her 12-year-old female students to her older pupils gives Stork a joy she said is often robbed from kids in school because of the pressure to create art according to someone else’s rules.
“When I first stated painting I wasn’t sure why either, but I realized that the paintings have a lot of joy in them, which is what I want to give to the world.”
Stork said she is here to dare others to see things their own way.
“I like to challenge people to think in different ways,” she said. “I like to stretch them out.”
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TO SEE THE SHOW
Stork’s art is on display daily from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. through July 31 on the patio at Whole Foods Market, 2201 S. College Ave.
Prints are also hanging at Rainbow Restaurant, 212 W. Laurel St., and Mekos Gallery and Framing, 133 Remington St., Fort Collins.
Find her works at www.sibylstork.com | Only registered users can write comments.
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