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Cynthia Fulton
cfulton@meadowedgeart.com
Leap
Precipice
The Gate
Soul enters life from below, through the cracks, finding an opening into life at the points where smooth functioning breaks down
-Thomas Moore
PROCESS
Most of my work is monotype, a process initiated by inking a Plexiglas plate with various colors, textures and shapes. The plate is then printed on an etching press. Subsequent inking and pressings onto the first pulled image create a deeply textured, enigmatic image. Ideas are developed through a dialog with the press. beginning with a sense of some experience that has intrigued me. I select and manipulate colors, textures and shapes on the first plate, then let the press have its say. With two or three more generations, the intention is realized, or yields to another idea. Key elements anchor or inform the journey through the more abstract, purely sensate layers of the image. Sometimes these elements disappear into the textural or color field areas, and then reemerge in a different way throughout the different pressings. Recurring themes in my work include motion (human and animal), weather, natural textures and objects.
INSPIRATION AND INFLUENCES
I draw much of my inspiration from childrens' and primitive art, and time worn surfaces, such as walls, old maps, pottery and rusted items. The works of Mary Frank, Michael Mazur, Ryder, Turner, Corot, Rauschenberg and Hokusai continue to inform my work
PHILOSOPHY
The truth of something is often discovered by slow aggregation of associations, emotions, memory, and thought that build up from beneath an established appearance. It is the artist's task to set this process in motion, and to encourage it in the viewer. My work is about holding on and letting go as one passes through the stages of a quest for resonance with a true thing. What is given, what is lost or obscured, what do you keep, what do you leave behind? How do these events and choices alter both the itinerary and sense of what is being sought?
Biography
Cynthia grew up in Providence, RI. Her work at Boston University and RISD was interrupted by a two year service in India for the Peace Corps, living and working with tribal people. Initially interested in childrens' art, she taught at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, founded a summer art school on Marthas Vineyard, and an after school program in Bernardston, MA, where she has lived for the past 34 years. Completing her Art Ed degree at UMASS, she finished a masters in Special Education. She started making prints at Northampton printmaking workshop in 1978. After attending a monotype course at Bennington College, she set up a studio in her home. For the past 20 years, she has taught a variety of courses in the art department at Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, MA. She now directs and teaches for Meadowedge Art For Children (www.meadowedgeart.com) and makes prints on her days off. Her monotypes are in several private collections
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