Cynthia Kolson

Influenced from an early age by her mother, an accomplished artist with a love of color, Cynthia Kolson has led a creative life for as long as she can remember. She studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the New School in New York, the Art Center of Tenafly, New Jersey, and other regional art programs, and earned a BFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, where she discovered fiber arts and continued sculptural work using locally quarried granite. After moving to New Mexico for a weaver’s apprenticeship, she became deeply inspired by the region’s light and landscape. Since retiring, she has returned fully to painting, working primarily in large-scale abstract oils and mixed media that draw from nature and landscape. She lives near the bosque in Corrales, New Mexico.