Artists

Cynthia Jawitz Brower

I am inspired by the contradiction of order/disorder, form, and poetry that I find in natural and man-made landscapes, both in the flatness and line of the eastern shore of Maryland and the quiet countryside of the Dordogne in France. There is an inherent richness in these subjects to be explored in-tellectually and emotionally. In each case I like to understand the spirit of the place, first spontaneously through sketches and watercolors, and then in a more ordered way in oil paintings. A variety of printmaking techniques also allows me to explore the playful qualities of the subject.

Cynthia Jawitz Brower was born in South Africa and immigrated to the USA during the apartheid years. She received a BFA at the University of Cape Town and spent a year studying painting at the Higher Institute of Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium. She holds a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The artist lives in Baltimore.