and produced etching, engravings in steel (Art in Steel exhibition 1972), copper and perspex monoprints. One of her influences was Stanley William Hayter and her etchings would then use multiple colours on a single plate. She also produced aquatints and lithographs using one plate for each colour process. Her work in serigraphy was also extensive and first exhibited in 1974. Drawing Sydney's drawing consistently used acrylic and oil pastels, ink and brush creating a series of works on Gemini paper. She produced a series of intensely detailed pen drawings merging the calligraphic with the figurative in a humorous way, as in Pen drawing with Jester, 1976. Children's books Sydney wrote and illustrated a Book of Nonsense Verse 1982/3 later titled Book of Fools which she dedicated to the First of April. A page from this work featuring the poem The Ant who Danced and Pranced is featured in the catalogue to the exhibition Homage to Berenice Sydney. In it the art historian, Florian Rodari's appraisal of Sydney's work appears in French with a translation in English by Charlotte Frieze. The black and white illustrations to the Book of Fools are aquatints etched in a delicately delineated style. The text is written in French and English. Four artist's proofs of the book subsequently titled Book of Fools were printed. The French version of A Book of Fools was purchased by the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris in October 1982 in addition to a number of the artist's earliest etchings, now kept in the Cabinet des Estampes. An audio cassette recording of the artist giving a reading of the Book of Fools was made at the Musée d'Elysée in Lausanne as the artist performed with castanets, accompanied by Gypsy Flamenco musicians and rendered in parts with a Yorkshire accent in homage to her father's family origins. Exhibitions Exhibitions during her lifetime 1968–1982 1968 Drian Galleries, First One Person Show, London Leicester Galleries, - Group Show, London Edinburgh Festival Costume Designs for Workshops Production of Clown - Televised, Grampian Productions Magdelene Street Gallery. Group Show, Cambridge 1969 Traverse Theatre Gallery, Group Show, Edinburgh Lumley Cazalet Gallery, Group Show, London Camden Arts Centre Group Show, London Tib Lane Gallery, Group Show, Manchester Royal Institute Galleries, Group Show F.I.B.A., London WI 1971 International Student House, One Person Show, London Leicester Galleries. Group Show, London WI Richard Demarco Gallery, Group Show, Edinburgh Tib Lane Gallery, Group Show, Manchester