Piece description from the artist
I wanted Abracadabra to have a genuine feeling of freedom. I wanted it to be completely open and flowing, because so many people including me have felt so restricted lately. This painting is about breaking free.
To create something open and peaceful, I made a clean break from my usual technique. Instead of painting in a more controlled way, I just let myself go and allowed it to happen. I poured soothing colors on the canvas, then layered over it and added gold leaf. I wanted it to be totally fresh and spontaneous.
This is part of the same series as Great Awakening. I painted both of these at the same time, because they both evoke the same feeling of freedom and openness. They are both about what make us feel alive.
The art of Cynthia Ligeros incorporates impressionist elements that reveal an inner landscape to the viewer, an image at once familiar and transcendent. She seeks to explore our place in a world that we have created, yet one which also creates us.
Her paintings often begin with a single driving emotion. From that, an image develops, inspired by the colors, cycles and feelings of the environment.
Sunsets, moonscapes, flowers, the changing seasons — all of these are sources of inspiration, adding richness and layers of complexity to her paintings.
Even industrial spaces and structures figure prominently in her work, contrasting the artifice of the cityscape against the limitless beauty of the sky.
As she paints, she redefines the spaces around us and how they connect to our lives.
Her artwork was recently acquired by Colorado Creative Industries for the newly remodeled Ketchum Arts and Sciences Building at CU Boulder.
Her art has appeared at the Denver Mayor’s Residence, Denver International Airport, the Madden Museum, Denver Botanic Gardens, Professional Artist Magazine, FOX News, and galleries from San Francisco to New York City.
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