Known for her visionary paintings, Cynthia West is also a poet, photographer, digital imager and book artist. Her home, with many gardens, in the Santa Fe River Valley, where she has lived with her husband and family for fifty years, is a healing center as well as her studio and gallery. West is the author of six previous collections of poetry. For Beauty Way, 1990, and 1000 Stone Buddhas, 1993, published by Inked Wingbeat, Santa Fe. Rainbringer, 2004, The New Sun, 2007, In the Center of the Field, 2010, and A Clear Drop, 2015, the last four published by Sunstone Press, Santa Fe. West is also the artist and author of The Seasons of Tea, 2010, and Visionary Paintings, 2019, published by Inked Wingbeat.
