Cynthia Rosen
Palette Knife Painter
My artistic voice has found it’s place painting both outside (en plein air) and in the studio with limitless color, reflecting the ever changing light and sounds of the spinning world around me. This engages and challenges both perceptions and expression. The use of the palette knife affords pushing heightened broken colors with which to capture but the essence of the subject without providing defined parameters. I hope you enjoy and bring to the work from your own heart and memories.
Cynthia Rosen paints with a contemporary vision that bridges the representational world with the intangibility of time as explored by the Impressionists, Expressionists, Futurists and Color Field painters. Her work has been recognized for spurring a change in the Plein Air community as she melds her love of nature with painting, often painting outdoors, creating images that stretch beyond the traditional, with a palette knife as an integral tool.
Rosen states “Our personal visual voices are our means of connecting and interpreting our ever-changing world. I pursue mine through improvisation while creating order. The size of my works vary, but my fascination with color and movement remains a constant.”
In 2018, Rosen was featured in Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, The Outdoor Painter (online) and American Art Collector, and was invited to make an instructional video which was released through Streamline Art Videos (11/18). She will be on the faculty of the 2019 Plein Air Convention. Rosen lives in Dorset, Vermont.
Cynthia Rosen has been the recipient of numerous awards at juried and invitational plein air events.
Her works are in both corporate and private collections.
Art instructional videos
Streamline Art Video ("Expressive Landscape Painting- Palette Knife in Plein Air" and a still life video to be released in Nov, 2020).
Podcast
The Artful Painter with Carl Olson: "Viewing one of Cynthia's paintings is like listening to an improvisational jazz band. There is movement, rhythm, syncopation, dynamic range, unexpected interludes. and rich texture."
Faculty
"Plein Air Convention and Expo" (2019, 2021 - 2020 cancelled)
Featured Articles
Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, online: The Artist Road, Outdoor Painter, and Arts Illustrated.