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THE ART SMALL CORNER By Genevieve Bresson and Maximillien de Lafayette

CANDID CHAT WITH CINDY BENSON
 
CINDY: JE NE REGRETTE RIEN

Q- Do you live your life on stage or do you live your theater character in real life? Cindy:  I certainly don’t live my theatre character in real life. When I’m on stage, I get to be everything I am in real life that people never see. It’s almost like therapy in a way. It’s a wonderful release. Things that you would carry deep inside you in real life, you get to use on stage. It’s cathartic. Like an enema, only better.   Q- What is the difference? Cindy: Total freedom!  Onstage, I’m all the things I am in real life, only a lot more so. Q- Cindy, why theater is so important to you? Cindy: I get a chance to share myself with people. I see that sometimes I actually make a difference in other people’s lives. I can help people get in touch with their feelings…happy and sad and crazy. Q- Do you get along all the time with producers and directors? Cindy: For the most part. When a director is asking me for something and I don’t agree, we’ll talk about it and try to arrive at a point where we’re both happy. Maybe. Q- If you had to relive your life, what kind of life you wish to create, remember or forget about? Cindy:  If had to relive my life, I wish it wouldn’t take so long to gain the wisdom and inner knowledge that I've finally found. It took all my life to grow and to get where I am now as a human being. It was a struggle sometimes. We make foolish mistakes because we don’t have the wisdom to make the right choices. But in spite of everything, I can’t say I have any regrets. NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN!

 

IS THERE A MARKET FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS? YOU BET!

Photo: American artist, Joan Ledwith.

Would you buy nowadays, paintings of landscape, roses and children? Many tend to believe that nature is passé in contemporary art. Facing ever growing and aggressive ornamental and corporate art competition, painters of the beauty of nature, its valleys, mountains, horizons, prairies and blue skies might reconsider their artistic inclination and  taste, once told me an art agent in Manhattan, New York. Really? Perhaps, it is true that "corporate art" is more suitable for corporate offices in steel and glass high rises, but true art of the nature, portraiture and landscape are still en vogue worldwide.

Joan Ledwith's "Coastal Garden"
22" X 32" w/gold frame
$900 includes shipping

There is a touch of the sacred and a flair of unique charm in sea and landscape artworks. This deep conviction of mine incites me and energizes me in my constant search for unique landscape artists, who through their talent and magical brushes safeguarded the true wealth and richness of our world: NATURE! I just discovered two American artists who did just that. Bring the beauty of the world to their linens. And they did it with grace, affection and unique talent. Michelle Golias and Joan Ledwith are those magnificent landscape artists. Golias is an outstanding painter with a wide recognition in the New York's area. She has already won numerous awards. Her artwork reminds me of the 1970's and 1980's leading Italian artists who tried so hard to revive

 

the "Divina Natura" (Divine Nature) school of art.-By M. de Lafayette.

Golias's Village View
30" X 34" w/gold frame
$2400 includes shipping

 

Golias's Warm Beginnings
22" X 26" w/gold frame
$1800 includes shipping

Golias's Old Cape Cottage
16" X 19" w/gold frame
$850 includes shipping

 

 

 

 

 

MICHELLE GOLIAS

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