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Native South Carolinian Sylvester Hickmon , Jr. became interested in art at an early age. He can remember drawing on the ground as a child, and later spending every moment he could in the art room during his high school years, where he received his first formal art training, and later at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, where he earned a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Art Education. For the past 20 years, he's taught art on the high school, middle school and elementary school levels. He has taught colored pencil classes at the Sumter Gallery of Art and conducts workshops on drawing with colored pencils.
Hickmon is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.
He has worked in oils, acrylics and relief printing, but for the past 20 years has worked exclusively in colored pencil.
Hickmon's work is characterized by his rich, vibrant use of color, light and shadow. 'I use burnishing and sgraffito techniques to build layers of color for my compositions which mostly depict figurative and still life scenes created in a realistic style.'
Hickmon has exhibited throughout the United States, and his works can be found in many private collections. He has received numerous regional awards and national recognition for his colored pencil art which has been featured in THE ARTIST'S MAGAZINE and THE BEST OF COLORED PENCIL 5.
He is the co-author of the colored pencil instruction book 'COLORED PENCIL STEP BY STEP.'
“In my work I convey brief moments and interludes in our lives and leave it to the viewer's own individual experience and imagination to recapture these tales and turn them into their own stories. Our lives are moments; each one lived with the importance of the instant. The moments vanish as quickly as they come leaving behind memories, impressions, images, colors and feelings. These moments shape the routines and rituals of our everyday lives and define our humanness”.
