Cynthia Wild

Cynthia Wild is an Australian-born artist living in London and working in Britain and Australia. She studied at Central, Wimbledon and Chelsea Schools of Art and, exhibiting regularly in London, her work is held in a number of private collections in USA, Germany, Sweden and Australia. Shown here are works inspired by a series of Chinese poems describing twelve years in the life of a Han Chinese upper class woman abducted by Mongols in the third century and her eventual ransom and return to China. The initial responses to the poems (Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: the Story of Wen Chi) take the form of collages from which paintings are made.