The wounded, the Warrior and the Wise

In this piece a tiger leaps to attack. The tiger's stripes unravel & house three figures who represent archetypes that exist in all of us.
The crouching figure represents our vulnerable inner-child, who clings to a second figure for protection. The second figure holds the tiger’s stripes like reigns and represents our inner warrior energy. The third figure tries to calm the latter and represents inner wisdom.
This piece is about patterns of human reactivity and our potential to interrupt old behaviours and make intentional choices.

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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.