Cynthia is an American-born artist and illustrator with an international background in environmental planning. Her career focus has shifted from master plans of thousands of hectares, to the intimate scale of everyday life around her. ‘Windsor on My Wall’ is her new series of watercolours and drawings inspired by the people and places in her home town.
Cynthia has a BFA degree in painting and further degrees in environmental planning and design. Her art can be seen in group exhibitions in London, and in solo and group exhibitions in and around the Thames Valley.
Cynthia's art is in private collections in Britain, Singapore, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the USA. She is happy to discuss commissions for work large or small. Her work can be seen in her studio by prior arrangement.
Publications: Author/illustrator of the pen and ink chapter in Artist's Drawing Techniques published by DK (Dorling Kindersley, August 2017). Four double-pages in Pen and Ink - Contemporary Artists, Timeless Techniques (pub. Frances Lincoln, 2016) by James Hobbs, freelance editor, author and artist based in London. Feature article 'Drawing at the Speed of Life' in Drawing magazine's special summer issue 'All about Sketchbooks' (F+W, New York, 2016). Cover art for Landscape Architecture Theory - An Ecological Approach by Michael D Murphy (pub. Island Press, 2016). Cover art for Notes Relating to an Idea of Blue, a poetry collection by David HW Grubb (pub. Shearsman, 2011).
Awards: Highly Commended Work in Colour, and Highly Commended Work on the Exhibition Theme in DRAW 13, the 92nd Annual Open Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Fine Art - The Drawing Society.
Group exhibitions in London: Tower 42 lobby, Bankside Gallery, Menier Gallery, Barbican Library, R K Burt Gallery, Southwark Cathedral Refectory Gallery.
Group exhibitions outside London: The Old Fire Station, Henley-on-Thames; Oxfordshire Artweeks; Harvey Gallery, Guildford.
Solo exhibitions: The River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames; The West Wing, Slough; Ripley Arts Centre, Bromley, Kent.