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PHILOSOPHY
Thomas Wolfe once said "You can’t go home again," but artist and writer Cynthia Munson proves that there is always an exception to the rule. Munson has spent years of her adult life recreating history through her art, specifically in oil painting and short stories. Memories of growing up in Hills, Minnesota, a small farming community near the South Dakota border, have become the fodder for her artistic creations.

Utilizing an impressionistic style in both painting and writing, Munson allows readers and viewers to not only see the tragedy and comedy of the stories she tells through her art, but also to understand how history shapes us and cannot be discarded. In her preface to "Sparkles, Spatters and other Private Matters", Munson dedicates the short story collection to this idea, to those "whose memory still sleeps wherever it is within me that memories sleep."

STYLE
Abstract/Impressionism

TECHNIQUE
Oil on large canvases

BACKGROUND
Munson’s work is available at Gallery Muñoz in Long Grove, Illinois.

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