Receptivity drawing
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. She applies paint with physical intensity, resulting in richly-textured surfaces that emerge beyond the constraints of the canvas.
The confident, economical line work that defines her compositions betrays both spontaneity and serious consideration. Cinda often returns repeatedly to her canvases—layering, deliberating, frowning, revising. Her deliberative/spontaneous approach results in works that hold visual tension between what's revealed and what's obscured. 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 paper
Measurements: 18”x12”
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. She applies paint with physical intensity, resulting in richly-textured surfaces that emerge beyond the constraints of the canvas.
The confident, economical line work that defines her compositions betrays both spontaneity and serious consideration. Cinda often returns repeatedly to her canvases—layering, deliberating, frowning, revising. Her deliberative/spontaneous approach results in works that hold visual tension between what's revealed and what's obscured. 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 paper
Measurements: 18”x12”
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. She applies paint with physical intensity, resulting in richly-textured surfaces that emerge beyond the constraints of the canvas.
The confident, economical line work that defines her compositions betrays both spontaneity and serious consideration. Cinda often returns repeatedly to her canvases—layering, deliberating, frowning, revising. Her deliberative/spontaneous approach results in works that hold visual tension between what's revealed and what's obscured. 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 paper
Measurements: 18”x12”
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.