Cindy Vener (American, b. 1955, Buffalo, NY) has been painting for over twenty-five years. She works primarily in acrylic and oils, and in recent years she has been incorporating cold wax medium, which she finds to be a great vehicle for layering color and creating texture in her abstract paintings. After living in Virginia for nearly forty years, Florida’s landscape has proved to be both a new source of inspiration and a natural fit for Vener’s strong palette and loose, vigorous style. Weather permitting, she enjoys painting en plein air, but studio work also figures strongly in her portfolio. A fan and a practitioner of both abstract expressionism and impressionism, Vener counts Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Joan Mitchell, and Claude Monet as influences in her own artistic practice.