Cynthia Packard is a Provincetown artist whose mother, Anne Packard, is an established landscape painter and whose grandfather, Max Bohm, was a well-known painter. She graduated from Mass College of Art with a degree in sculpture, and subsequently studied painting in Provincetown with Fritz Bultman.
I really love Cynthia’s work, with which I became acquainted when I first visited my husband’s family on the Cape. The Packards have their own gallery in Provincetown, in an old church. The building is quite lovely. (Cynthia also shows at Chase Gallery in Boston.)
About nine years ago, I purchased a small painting by Cynthia Packard, using funds I had set aside from stock I received at AOL. I still love the painting, which is of her daughter Emma. Cynthia often paints her children; she has four.
Cynthia’s current work is fantastic, especially the large scale nudes. (Unfortunately those cost about as much as a small car.) Here are some photos I took this weekend at the gallery, as well as images from the Packard Gallery website.
left: Departure; right: Eternal
Departure
Eternal
Studio Nude
Sisters
Emma
In the Light
(a new work)
(another new work)
Clockwise: Boudoir, Pink Lace, (unidentified), In Thought
Boudoir
In Thought
Pink Lace
Turquoise Lace
Pink Roses II
the blurred effect really compliments her work
lovely paintings. the colors are quite rich and complex. the soft edges and anonymous faces lend an ethereal quality to solid forms.
Wonderful artist!! I have been admiring your work for the past few years. I find your paintings inspirational. I am a painter also influenced by the impressionists yet expressing more of a personal statement. I love the textures and freedom to break all the rules and still maintain a classical reference to form and subject. I can not give you enough praise. I graduated B.U. MFA 1981 painting major.