Expecting

'Expecting' is about braving life’s challenges and surrender to major change.

In this painting a pregnant woman gazes up at a cloud filled sky, her hand outstretched, expecting child and anticipating the impending storm. The pattern of upside down and right side up clouds and the absence of a clear horizon suggests that this figure is in a surreal limbo between worlds and times. Her striking features and halo convey a sense of dignity and strength whilst her kneeling position conveys brave surrender to the present moment and upcoming change.

'Expecting' is based on a stream of consciousness drawing the artist created whilst her two sisters were both pregnant and channels both the excitement and anxiety towards the unknown and new significant chapters.

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Cynthia Howard is a contemporary artist working mostly in oil paints. Her concepts come from stream-of-consciousness and either manifest as the free-flowing lines in her colourful abstract figures, or as the surrealist undertones in her realistically painted compositions. Sometimes she combines realism with her abstract figures in one concept. Cynthia Howard’s work surrounds an interest in life philosophy, meaningful relationships and self actualisation. The portraits and subjects she portrays are treated with reverence, focussing on their self-ownership, strength and wholeness. Her paintings deal predominately with the richness of our internal psychological and emotional world and musings about how we radiate energy and intention in our outer world.