Cynthia Guild

"Push"

36 x 36"
oil on canvas

Artists Statement

I have always been interested in what meaning, what suggestion found images can carry. The images I am trying to make are psycho-emotional, dreamlike and distorted. I am drawn to a particular subject matter for what it seems to say to me, and how I can think about it as a physically made painting - actually putting paint down.

My work touches on universal themes: alienation, individual will, the passage of time, man's disrespect of the natural world. Some of the paintings are worked from web surveillance images bringing a peculiar sense of remove to the work. It is my hope that the paintings capture the sense of beauty, endurance and resignation that mimics my own vision of life.