Artist: Cynthia Barlow-Marrs  SGFA

Artist Biography:

I have returned to England and my art and design roots after living and working in six countries as a landscape architect and environmental planner.

I started out with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting, and as an undergraduate would have gladly camped out in the life drawing studio. But my first love, at the age of five, was drawing pages and pages of Os and ellipses. The S-curve has been an obsession ever since, which I think partly explains my fascination with the human spine.
Nowadays my drawings, paintings and collages are inspired not only by the human body but also by tropical and temperate landscapes and, closer to home, the fields, fauna and flora of Windsor Great Park. I use simplified shapes of leaves, trees,  grasses and wildlife to create stylized landscapes that borrow from the conventions of landscape architectural illustration: the sketches and jottings of field observations, the surveyor's grid, the artist's impression.
My art is in private collections in the UK and abroad. The scale of my work ranges from small-sized to wall-sized: the largest work to date is Undercurrents, a five metre-long collage created for my solo exhibition at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames.
I happily undertake commissions.and participate regularly in solo and group shows. In addition to the SGFA annual exhibition, each year I take part in  the Windsor Contemporary Art Fair and the Windsor Fringe artists' open house scheme.