Featured Artwork: i carry your heart

i carry your heart 24"x24" Oil on Canvas

The poem i carry your heart by EE Cummings inspired me to create an oil painting with the same title. I was especially moved by the ending of the poem:

here is the deepest secret...
this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart...
i carry your heart
(i carry it in my heart) 

I wanted to capture the raw emotion of the poem and portray what it means to me on canvas. I hope that my painting inspires someone as much as the poem inspired me.

i carry your heart is 24" x 24" and is currently available at UGallery.com. They will be offering 20% off all art this Thanksgiving weekend!

I have other abstract oil paintings on view at UGallery.com, and at my website, cynthialigeros.com. Thanks so much for looking!

Featured Artwork: Mansions of the Sky

Mansions of the Sky 30"x30" Oil & Gold Leaf on Canvas

The enchanting colors of late fall at twilight inspired me to create Mansions of the Sky. I tried to capture the emotion of those brilliant colors contrasting against the graying horizon. I used just a bit of gold leaf to portray the shimmer of the late day sunlight on the autumn leaves.

Mansions of the Sky is 30" x 30" and is currently available at UGallery.com. They will be offering 20% off all art this Thanksgiving weekend.

I have other fall inspired abstract oil paintings on view at UGallery.com, and at my website, cynthialigeros.com. Thanks so much for looking!

Featured Artwork: This is Not the End

This is Not the End 36"x36" Oil & Gold Leaf on Canvas

I created This is Not the End after I'd been injured and unable to work in my studio. The physical act of standing and painting had become difficult, and so I painted in short bursts as I slowly started to heal. I wasn't sure if I would ever finish it.

One day, I scrawled something across the bottom: "We are all of us living at the edge of the supreme." It was completely spontaneous, and the words aren't really legible in the painting. But they inspired me.

When I finished the painting, it felt like a triumph. It was my comeback painting. And I hope that it inspires someone to triumph over whatever adversity they face in their life.

This is Not the End is painted in oil with gold leaf on canvas. It measures 36" x 36" and is now available at UGallery.com.

I have many other abstract oil paintings on view at UGallery.com, and at my website, cynthialigeros.com. Thanks so much for looking!