Cyndy Baran

Artist Statment:

“One inch ...One simple, little inch can change your life.”  

If it weren’t for that one little inch between me and that out-of-control city bus careening towards my car, I would have been trapped in that tangled pile of metal under the belly of the bus.  Instead, the lives of two young men were snatched away in an instant, and I walked away alive.  It was in that moment I decided that if I ever wanted to find my creative self, I had better get to it!" 

Leaving her business career behind, Cyndy went to work exploring her artistic voice, graduating from Watkins College of Art & Design, and she continues her studies with noted local and national artists.

“Creating Art resonates as a metaphor for my life. The push-pull of contrasting colors represents the push-pull of the daily demands we face.  We give, and we take; we struggle; we work; we compromise. The drips and dribbles of paint as it runs down the canvas mimics the meandering path we often take as we weave our way through life’s daily challenges.  I have learned that the body intuitively knows what it needs.  If you can be quiet and listen to that voice, it will guide you to the place you need to be at that moment. “