Cynthia Kresse, a pastel artist from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is known for large scale, hand rubbed pastels described as mysterious and atmospheric. Kresse’s subject matter celebrates where she lives and the people around her, as in the series “Views from The Car”, “Chicken Houses of Northwest Arkansas” and “Portraits in the Arts”. Cynthia Kresse received her Master of Arts in Medical Illustration from the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. Kresse’s art has been selected for inclusions in The Delta Exhibit, Arkansas’s “Forty Women Over Forty”, and “National Museum of Women in the Arts”.