Art Gallery

From the earliest cave wall murals until Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s first stable photographic print in 1826, imagery was depicted through hand-rendered media. Despite photography’s proliferation in the subsequent years, artwork retains importance in showing objects (e.g., contents of identification books) and illustrating subjects unable to be photographed, from molecular pathways to grand galactic networks. Just as we need break from the daily grind, artwork also offers the mind a creative outlet, where we can explore new ideas and enter surreal worlds

G.R. SYKES’ artwork ranges from the lifelike to abstractions, though the latter pieces are footed with sufficient realism to offer the viewer a step into a new, exciting world.

Catalog Number: SB04-01
1990-12 Dragon hatchling, marker and India ink.
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Catalog Number: SB03-25
1990-01 Fungi and lichens. Graphite pencil.
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Catalog Number: SB02-26
1988-10-27 Close-up #4—Nuts.
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Catalog Number: SB05-06
1994-03 African Violet Picture. Design from a series of photographs Greg took of his mother’s African violet collection. Graphite and color pencils.
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Catalog Number: SB04-22
1992-04 Camel Picture—Emergence Series Part III. Inspired by gray whales spyhopping—they look like stones and you never know where they show up next. Graphite pencil.
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Catalog Number: SB05-09
1995-08 The Sea Dragon Picture. Color pencil with B2 shades and acrylic titanium white tints. Sea dragon based on the mandarin dragonet fish.
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Catalog Number: SB05-17
1997-03 The one with the dog and guy praying in the church. The seminarian’s features were inspired by a young clergy student attending a Sunday church service. The picture is left with calm optimism for betterment of the sick dog, but what is best for him? St. Seraphim, the only completely visible saint, is subliminally watching over the dog.
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Catalog Number: SB05-20
1998-07 VietNam Memorial. Image based on an actual scene Greg photographed at the Wall. Graphite pencil.
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Catalog Number: SB06-01
2000-02 Mermaid awakening in a seaweed forest with the twist being a human female head and torso with a snowflake moray eel body. Greg used a composite of two friends posing for the human form. Color pencil, graphite, and acrylic paint highlights.
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Catalog Number: 780-1521B
Cat Eyes-Deep Green with Yellow Accents. DIGITAL ARTWORK. For more digital artwork, see the album covers in the Commissions and Covers Gallery.
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