Cynthia Wilson

HENDERSONVILLE, NC

Artist Statement:

The theme of floating leaves and their symbolism has been with me since my mother’s death from cancer forty years ago. As a child I sat by the pond she and my father built and watched the colorful leaves float on the surface of the pond. As an adult, I began thinking that we float on the surface of life while we’re young and colorful, but as we age and begin to lose color, we begin to go into our deeper selves in the same way the leaves go to the pond’s depths. The leaves provide food and ...

Artist Biography:

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition, NYC
American Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, NYC
National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic Annual Exhibition, NYC {Awards}
South Carolina Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, SC {Awards}
New England WC Society Invitational: “Masters of Watercolor” New Bedford Art Museum
Academic Artists National Exhibition, MA {Award}
Allied Artists Annual Exhibition, NYC
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