Voices of Experience - Cynthia Rosen

Of Sun and Snow 36 x 48” Oil

“I love beautiful scenes and paintings, and there are painters that surely do that beautifully, but for me—I want something different.”

Cynthia Rosen combines her background in non-representational art with her passion for the landscape to create large, vital works filled with color and movement. Her tool of choice is the painting knife. It allows her to transfer thick paint strokes that vibrate against each other heightening the dynamism of her images. Rosen wrote to us about the evolution of her work and the future painting she aspires to.

Your life has been devoted to art in one form or another from a very young age. Did you have family or teachers that encouraged you when you were growing up?

I had an uncle who was an illustrator for a manufacturer and a Sunday painter. He gave me my first painting set when I was perhaps in my young teens. I also won an arts award in 8th grade which gave me some well-needed confi…