Kissimmee, FL
About Cindy Thornton:
In 1993 Thornton took an art 101 class her senior year of high school. Her art teachers encouraged Thornton to consider continuing with the art after graduation. She ended up attending the local college in her hometown in NW Florida, and was awarded a work scholarship as gallery assistant through the art department. A couple of years later she held an AA Degree in Studio Art.
In 2004 Thornton's family started to grow and so she decided to quit the "9 to 5" job and stay at home with her kids. Thornton realized she needed to find or invent a creative outlet, and so she revisited her art. It started out as a hobby, and she was creating ACEO's (artist trading cards) and selling them on eBay. Thornton then wanted to see these tiny ideas on a larger scale, so she opened a shop on eBay and began to offer originals on canvas.
Thornton has had the opportunity to create works for Boston's Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, create paintings for private collectors around the world, illustrate a children's book, receive gallery representation in Asia, as well as participate annually (6 years in a row) in a juried international art show in Taipei. On occasion she's been known to participate in art festivals located in the southeast corner of the US.
