Cyndra Bradford "Bixby Bridge" 2013

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Cyndra Bradford began her professional career as a serigraph artist under her father's mentorship, mastering the printmaking process and securing … Read more Cyndra Bradford began her professional career as a serigraph artist under her father's mentorship, mastering the printmaking process and securing gallery representation at just eighteen. Her work quickly found its way into collections across the United States. At twenty-four, she became a member of the Carmel Art Association as a printmaker, later returning in her thirties as a painter, as her practice fully evolved into oils.

Cyndra Bradford's work celebrates the vitality of landscape and movement through a bold, intuitive use of oil paint and palette knife. Known for her vibrant color harmonies, she layers and blends pigment to evoke the shifting light, atmosphere, and rugged beauty of the natural world. Her plein air paintings of Big Sur capture the drama of wind, weather, and changing conditions with immediacy and energy, while her expressive equestrian works convey power, grace, and motion with striking emotional presence.

"Bixby Bridge" is a wonderful example of Cyndra's use of color and thick application of paint using Big Sur's Bixby Bridge as her subject matter. See less