Meet Cynthia

 

About the Art and Artist:

Cynthia Garside is an abstract expressionist artist and Creativity Coach, who has dabbled in interior design, home staging and furniture painting - but who keeps getting drawn back to getting messy with paint!

“I love the smell, texture, the endless possibility of colour and the transformative energy of paint. It is a form of creative self expression. The alchemy of paint fuels and inspires my work."

About the Work:

‘From darkness to light and everything in between…’

I have always been fascinated by what makes people tick, therefore my art serves as a metaphor for my observations of people; we all have darkness and light within and I am drawn to exploring and expressing that creatively.

I believe that everything is energy. My art is my way to process that internal and external observable energy. The world to me is best viewed in the abstract, as an explosive expression of movement, color, line, texture and form.

Reality skewed is more interesting.

About the Process:

Using acrylic paint, various mark making tools and mixed media, my paintings are explorations in the elements of art and principles of design, examining creative self-expression, the human condition and organic forms and textures observed in nature and surrounding environment.

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun” Pablo Picasso

Residing in the GTA, Ontario, Canada, her art can be found in private and corporate collections across Canada.