Sydney Whitten is a practicing multimedia artist. Most recently they spent a summer in France at the Marchutz School of Fine Art studying oil landscape painting, which was the first formal training in art that they have received. Here, Sydney was introduced to oil paints—a medium which they have embraced wholeheartedly. Throughout their life, their love of people and little moments has brought them time and time again to portraiture in whatever medium they could manage—from photography, to charcoals, to linocut printing. After Marchutz, they began a new practice of oil portraits, one which they are excited to continue. Sydney is currently a senior at St. John’s college, studying Liberal Arts and the Great Books.