Edwards would leave college to marry Sadredin Golestaneh,[2] having their first daughter, Shirin, in 1958.[2] In 1960, they moved to Philadelphia, where they had their second child, Nader[2] In 1961, the family relocated to Tehran, Iran.[1] In 1966, Edwards gave birth to her third child, Leila, in Southern Iran.[citation needed]
"The works of Sylvia Edwards Golestaneh have an affinity with Japanese wood-cuts and the artist has brought to realization the innate character and possibilities of watercolor: flow of colors and lines in space, poetry of shapes and themes.
This gentleness seems to touch the world and transform it, even perpetuate it in the calm pastel hues and the satisfying and warm pulse of tints which remain pure and fresh when merged, especially when they embark on a dialogue of an intimate nature.
One sees elegant vases shooting forth delicate, flowering branches, villages and traditional structures, flowering spring landscapes or those of winter covered with their silent layer of snow.
In this calm painting the figurative becomes 'tachist' or even 'cubist' but always indistinct, nebulous, gently stirring.
These gentle country themes take, on occasion, directions where one may conjure up some sort of hidden frivolity, secret and introspective which introduces into this charming atmosphere of sincerity, several passionate touches which are the subtle spice of peace and serenity."
"Her flower paintings glow as if with inner light—taking on the living vibrancies"
Mel Gooding: Arts Review, 1988
"Each time Edwards gives her kaleidoscopic mind a shake, we get a splendidly lush yet pictorially ordered glimpse of chaos. Nothing in these paintings is encoded in a private language... Rather they are unaffected celebrations of the world in its upbeat mode."
