264 Young's Hill Road,
Washington, ME 04574
207 845-2360
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Barking Up Trees
Collagraph
9" x 12"
2008

Window Oak–Winter I
Etching
9" x 12"
2008

Window Oak–Winter II
Etching
9" x 12"
2008

Trees In My Life
I'm a printmaker-landscapist, for most of my drawing and painting is headed toward making a print. I've always returned to trees over the years, so it was natural for me to want to make some images of the large, ancient oak outside my bedroom window, familiar in all seasons and weathers. I'm always searching for the particular character of a tree, or the setting of a field, a pond, a mountain, to find something permanent and individual. I look for the medium that will best convey their unique character.

Backwater
Linoleum block print
8" x 10"
2000

Backwater I
Pen & ink drawing
9" x 12"
2008

Backwater II
Scratchboard drawing
9" x 12"
2008

Sun, Wind, Water
Charcoal, pen & ink, watercolor drawing
11" x 11"
2007

Bog Island
Etching
9" x 12"
2007

 Osprey ©2001 White
Osprey
Linoleum block print
11 7/8" x 71/2"
2001
Another World
The deserts, canyons and mountains of Nevada , Arizona and California were a revelation to me when I first traveled there . Those landscapes, so startling and different, stimulated my seeing and made me look for new ways of working and new print media.

Mosaic Canyon
Pencil and pastel drawing
9" x 11"
2002

From Mosaic Canyon
Color etching
9 1/4" x 12"
2007

Down Bighorn Wash
Color etching
11" x 14"
2007

Cathedrals
Color etching
5" x 7"
2007

By Spirit Mountain
Scratchboard drawing
9" x 12"
2008

Canyon of the Hot Springs
Collagraph
2006

Words and Pictures
As a lifelong reader of poems, I've been drawn to the interface between poetic and visual imagery. Poems have been written to interpret a print of mine and I've collaborated with writers in visual interpretations of their poems. My series of prints "In Our Time" were made in response to a poem that, without specifically naming events, said so much about both the fear, sadness and shame of Katrina's aftermath and the ongoing horror of wars.

In Our Time I
Collagraph & etching
12" x 18"
2006

In Our Time II
Collagraph & etching
12" x 18"
2006

In Our Time III
Collagraph & etching
12" x 18"
2006

About My Printmaking
The craft of making prints, with its unexpected outcomes and its long and sometimes meditative process has always drawn me. Admiring the English wood engravings of the 19th and 20th centuries, I set out to teach myself this magic. I discovered too that linoleum block prints could be more than just a 3rd grade project. Then, I had always wanted to learn etching... So, at last, my drawing and painting became potential ideas for prints. I had found my medium. I work with varied print media: linocut, wood engraving, etching, collagraph and monotype...and experiments with combinations of these. My training has been varied as well. After receiving a BA in Fine Arts from Radcliffe College/Harvard University, I studied painting and design at Carnegie-Mellon College of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, drawing at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and drawing with William Flynn at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Most importantly, I worked on etching with Selma Bromberg at the Graphic Arts Workshop, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Massachusetts. Images of landscape, weather and seasons have been the core of most of my prints, whether the place is inland Maine or the canyons and deserts of the Southwest. I begin with drawings and photographs from nature and then select and focus these ideas as I work with the print and it develops its own life. My other direction has been continuing interest in the conjunction of poetry and visual images. In my work, I often think about visual ideas and words almost simultaneously. Beginning with seeing something that moves me, drawing and planning a print, I often find that words–phrase or a title–come to me. And the words of a poem will often start sketches in my mind of images for a print.

EXHIBITIONS

Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Traveling Shoes" group show 2008

Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Trees: Friends-Symbols-Icons" : two person show 2008

Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine: Juried group show 2008

Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine: invitational group show 2008

Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine: Opening Show (juried) 2007

Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Visual Chronicles", group show 2007

Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine: "Contemporary Printmaking" (juried) October 2006

Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine: "Maine Printmakers" (juried) October 2006

Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Out of Bounds", two-person show 2006


Festivo Poetry and Art Festival, Belfast, Maine: "Northern Fusion", prints by Cynthia White with poems by Eleanor Steele, October 2005

Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Ten Years Downtown", group show 2005

Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "New Work", two person show 2004

Downtown Gallery, Washington, Maine: "Waking Up in Sacred Places",
two person show 2002

Blaine House, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, Maine: "Details from the Downtown Gallery", group show 2002

Union of Maine Visual Artists, Ellsworth, Maine: "The Strange Life of Objects: Still Life", group show 2001

Union of Maine Visual Artists, Ellsworth, Maine: "Varieties of Printmaking", (juried) group show 2000

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine: group show 2000

Camden Public Library, Camden, Maine: "Journeys in the Lands of Little Rain"
one person show 1999

Portland Museum of Art, Maine Printmakers' Consortium Print Fair 1998

Davidson and Daughters Gallery, Portland, Maine: Ten Maine Printmakers invitational show 1996

Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine: faculty show 1996

Artfellows Gallery, Belfast, Maine: three person show 1995

Gibbs Library, Washington, Maine: one person show 1995

Crone's Harvest Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts: group show 1991

Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Boston Area Printmakers (juried) 1982

Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine: Maine printmakers (juried) 1980

TRAINING
Printmaking: Selma Bromberg's Graphic Arts workshop, Cambridge Center for Adult Education 1976-1981

Drawing: William Flynn's class, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1983

Drawing and painting: Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh , Scotland 1973-74

Painting and Design: College of Fine Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1958-59

TEACHING
Art Center at Kingdom Falls, Liberty, Maine , printmaking classes 2000, 2001
MSAD 40, Waldoboro, Maine, Community Education 1999-2000
Medomak Camp, Washington, Maine, Arts Program Director 1999
Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine, printmaking classes 1998
Medolark Camp, Washington, Maine: Local Artists Coordinator, Teacher 1997
MSAD 28, Camden, Maine, Community Education 1996-98

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