About the artist:
Sylvia Anne Edwards 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.
Sylvia Edwards was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Sylvia (née Mailloux) and Junius Edwards. Her father was a music impresario. In the 1940s, he hired big bands such as Harry James, Duke Ellington, and Tommy Dorsey, and founded a magazine, Ballroom and Orchestra, a forerunner for DownBeat. Edwards' mother encouraged her to draw and instilled in her a love for color. Edwards spent summers in a country house in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
She was accepted at Massachusetts College of Art, which she attended from 1954 to 1957.[citation needed] Lawrence Kupferman, a Modernist painter who introduced his students to the work of Georges Braque and Piet Mondrian, and to the dynamics of cityscapes, sparked her interest in abstract art.
She left college to marry an Iranian student, Sadredin Golestaneh, who was studying to become an electronic engineer. Their first daughter, Shirin, was born in 1958. They then moved to Philadelphia, where their second child, Nader, was born in 1960. In 1961, the family moved to Tehran, Iran.
Her third child, Leila, was born in 1966 in Southern Iran. Edwards' husband encouraged the building of a studio for her on the lower level of their house.
Edwards moved to Switzerland in 1975, before settling in London in 1977. She summered and painted in her studio on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She resided in England until she died in 2018.
