Downtime painting
Working primarily in oils and acrylics, Cinda manipulates pigment with assertive movements—layering with palette knives, scraping with brush handles, slashing with the edge of a fingernail. This physical intensity results in richly-textured surfaces that reveal more of themselves the closer you look.
Cinda often returns repeatedly to her canvases—layering, deliberating, frowning, revising. Her deliberative/spontaneous approach and confident lines result in works that hold visual tension where you might not expect it. Her abstracted figures and florals emerge not as representations but as emotional impressions, relayed with a palette knife.
How does she describe her process? “I try to stay loose.”
Materials: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 20”x20”
Working primarily in oils and acrylics, Cinda manipulates pigment with assertive movements—layering with palette knives, scraping with brush handles, slashing with the edge of a fingernail. This physical intensity results in richly-textured surfaces that reveal more of themselves the closer you look.
Cinda often returns repeatedly to her canvases—layering, deliberating, frowning, revising. Her deliberative/spontaneous approach and confident lines result in works that hold visual tension where you might not expect it. Her abstracted figures and florals emerge not as representations but as emotional impressions, relayed with a palette knife.
How does she describe her process? “I try to stay loose.”
Materials: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 20”x20”
Working primarily in oils and acrylics, Cinda manipulates pigment with assertive movements—layering with palette knives, scraping with brush handles, slashing with the edge of a fingernail. This physical intensity results in richly-textured surfaces that reveal more of themselves the closer you look.
Cinda often returns repeatedly to her canvases—layering, deliberating, frowning, revising. Her deliberative/spontaneous approach and confident lines result in works that hold visual tension where you might not expect it. Her abstracted figures and florals emerge not as representations but as emotional impressions, relayed with a palette knife.
How does she describe her process? “I try to stay loose.”
Materials: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 20”x20”
Cinda Culver began her art practice when her kids were old enough to take care of themselves. With more time and freedom, she began taking drawing classes. Drawing led to pastels, which led to watercolors, then, after a decade or so, she began working in acrylics and oil. Her work is impressionistic, sometimes abstract, and often intricately textured. Across various media, she explores figures, flowers, and fecundity. She lives between Indiana, where her studio is in a basement, and Florida, where her studio is in a garage.