About Cynthia Chartièr
 
 
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Cynthia Chartièr began studying art when she was eight years old, at the Notre Dame Art School. She continued her studies during the summer months in Europe, then at the Boston Museum School, the Montserrat College of Art and completed her studies at the Norton Museum School of Art. After college, Cynthia found the magic of theatre to be inescapable. So she began working as scenic artist and set decorator for the Royal Poinciana Playhouse and Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre. Translating the whimsical musicals and dramatic plays became the main course of inspiration for her work. After freelancing as a Trompe L’oeil Artist for some of the residential homes in Palm Beach, Cynthia’s narrative style began to form. She spent some time traveling, and finally settled down in Dallas, Texas, where she now resides. Inspired by the way philosophy, ancient culture, and the masters of literature evolved through time, Cynthia’s process also evolved. She changed from painting in oil to mixed-media acrylic collage on canvas and recently she has added oil to her process, using layers of rich vibrant color, glaze to create a prism like effect, with symphony sheet music, manuscript, rare imported Egyptian and African fabrics and found objects for texture and depth. Language and symbolism are important aspects of conveying the secrets of the riddles that tell the stories hidden in each one of her paintings. Layers of rich vibrant color and glaze are used as a parallel to express the veils of awareness and emotion that we all experience as we ourselves evolve through our own day to day adventures. ART CLASS DALLAS was launched July 1, 2009 as a project for SELF-DISCOVERY. Class/Workshops are now available to beginners and experienced artists to explore, discover and sharpen self-awareness, while developing painting skills and techniques. The objective is to break through and discover unexplored areas of originality and to reach higher levels of creativity and fulfillment. Cynthia Chartièr’s work has been exhibited in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Boston, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, and is part of the permanent collection of the Jesuit Dallas Museum.
 
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