CINDIA SANFORD is a traditional landscape painter whose works are possessed of great luminosity and sensitivity. Taught from early childhood to appreciate nature and all its subtle wonders, the artist is a master at capturing not only the New England landscape, especially the marshes of the Massachusetts shore, but the mood of each site and time of day. As a child, Sanford was taken on long nature walks through the fields and forest surrounding her beloved grandfather's home. Through him, she learned the lore of the woods and the secret pleasures of nature. She found the "softly dark and shadowy woods" filled with "comfort and mystery." She says, "In my work I try to reawaken these memories, to engage many senses." Her beautiful, haunting paintings are filled with things sensed and unseen, something undefinable passing through. There is a ripple just below the surface of things. Sacred places." Her works evoke feelings of solace, exhilaration and mystery.