WYTCH is run be me, Syd. The scene above is from a film I shot on 8mm film 25 years ago. After leaving my bedsit in Birmingham behind, I went to live in a cottage in the middle of Exmoor, and received funding to make a short film. In the years since, and with varying degrees of success, I have followed a meandering path with a passion for art (photography in particular), and a focus on pretty much the same theme as that film 25 years ago - fanning the faint embers of magic that still smoulder in ancient woodlands, hollow ways, copses, oak trees, bookshops, art galleries and jumble sales. A hoarder and creator of esoterica, I now live in a tiny home on the SW coast of the Isle of Wight with my partner Molly, and we would like to share our hoard with you.
Currently listed on this site is a small part of this collection, and the seedlings of a project exploring alternative darkroom processes, using my archive of photography (some of which can be seen on sydburon.com), 25 years of photographing those wooded spaces trapped between farmers fields. I spent much of last year (‘22) building a darkroom, and converting an outbuilding on the farm where we live, into a workshop to frame the finished pieces. This is the beginning of a project that I hope to grow into something beautiful, and your support (especially in these early stages), would be very much appreciated. Please sign up for the newsletter below so I can send you occasional updates.
