“Most of us have experienced events in our lives that for a brief second made time stand still, the images of those events burning themselves into our soul like a freeze-frame photo, forever redefining how we see life. My two brothers died when I was a teenager, changing all that had come before and all that was yet to come. From that instant, my world was cast in a very different light.

Years later, I married a man who grew to understand my way of “seeing” and to appreciate the personal interpretations I drew from otherwise ordinary events. While living in Charlottesville, Virginia, he started me painting. He brought supplies home from the store, set up the equipment, mixed the paint, and, taking my hand in his, guided me from palette to gesso ground. It was a hard sell --but as soon as my brush hit the canvas, my world began to open up in wonderful and unexpected ways. Once again, my world was forever changed.”

An Arizona native now living with her husband in Old Scottsdale, Arizona, Cindy was born in Phoenix, raised in Prescott, and graduated with a degree in horticulture from the University of Arizona, Tucson. She also holds a degree in Interior Design from Scottsdale Community College where she continues to study painting.

Exhibitions, Collections and Awards:

• Art One Gallery, Marshall Way, Scottsdale, Arizona
• Solo exhibitions S.C.C. Department of Art, Spring 2000, and Spring 2003
• Twice selected for Art of the Community, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona
• Award for Excellence in Art, S.C.C.
• Honorable Mention, Shemer Art of the Community
• Twice selected for anthology publication, S.C.C. Vortex
• Phoenix Art Museum, Keep A Breast Gala Fundraiser
• Los Olivos Mexican Patio, Scottsdale
• Shemer Art Center’s “House of Fun” juried exhibition 2011
• Olivia and Harland J Fischer collection New York www.contempglass.org