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Cynthia Packard is part of an artistic lineage started with her great-grandfather, Max Bohm, who was a respected Impressionist painter from the turn of the century, and her mother, Anne Packard, a renowned landscape artist. As an honors student at Mass. College of Art, where she received a BFA, she spent most of her time sculpting.

After college, she returned to Provincetown and painting, where she studied with, and modeled for the late Fritz Bultman. Her five year relationship with Bultman influenced her work greatly and he remained Packard"s mentor until his death. Packard's work has also been influenced by several modern masters: Bonnard, Matisse, Modigliani, Balthus, and Diebenkorn, to name a few. Packard is a gifted colorist with a strong sense of composition and form.

Although she paints exceptional still lifes, Packard is more known for her figure work, primarily of women. Her paintings of people have weight and simplicity, yet, there is a stillness that pervades, as if her figures are isolated in a dream. Her paintings of women, in particular, many times give you the impression that the woman is waiting for something or for someone. There is often an expression of forlornment or longing which is rather disquieting to the lush interior landscape or setting.