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Cynthia Ryan Kelly

Cynthia Ryan Kelly

artist/painter

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Stories About Mountaintop Removal

And Then the Spirits Get Smoked

water-based media on canvas| 48" x 60" | 2008

private collection

Light on a Hill

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 36"| 2006

Signing of the Valleyfill

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 36"| 2006

Going to the Grocery

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 36" | 2006

On Getting to London

water-based media on board| 26" x 32"| 2008

Violation: Part One

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30"| 2006

private collection

Violation: Part Two

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30" | 2006

private collection

Violation: Part Three

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30" | 2006

private collection

The First View Will Be Shocking

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30" | 2006

private collection

Snake Pit

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30" | 2006

Houses now owned by coal companies are unkempt and great breeders of venomous snakes.

Sludge Creek

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30"| 2006

Ten Homes and One Graveyard

water-based media on canvas| 24" X 30"| 2006

private collection

Final Flood for Debra Burke

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30" | 2006

More Than Finite

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30"| 2006

private collection

Waiting for Water

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30"| 2006

private collection

A Good Dusting For Some

water-based media on panel| 26" x 32"| 2008

Boat Dock Dry

water-based media on panel| 24" x 30"| 2006

Share the Road

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30" | 2006

Bought Out in Red

water-based media on canvas| 24" x 30" | 2006

private collection

Steven and His Thousand Trucks

water-based media on panel| 32" x 26"| 2008

Mountaintop removal was considered an environmental disaster when it began, but that didn’t stop it.   Today there is no real war on coal.  What there should be is a war on fossil fuels.  A battle to the end.  This world had better change in the next decade or two.  We are all responsible.

©2022 Cynthia Ryan Kelly. Special thanks to Birdboar. And, of course, Leslie Keats for the original design.
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  • recent work
  • series
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    • landscape
    • figurative
    • still life
    • postcards
    • social justice
    • Horsemania 2022
  • about
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    • statement
    • a little bio
    • collections
    • history
    • just another telling page
  • contact
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    • contact
    • thank you