Photograph by Em White
Cidney Cher is an artist living and making in Richmond, Virginia. She holds a BFA in Artist Books and Printmaking from Longwood University.
Her studio practice of marbling silk and textiles is rooted in the history of book arts, papermaking and fiber studies.
A reverence for textiles comes from the hand of her grandmother who was a farmer on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with a remarkable love for quilting and fabric.
Her current research is focused on aviation and the spiritual history of Persian marbling and art making in Iran, where her father was from.
This research inspires her to create new techniques to build marbled compositions that honor the craft's history of function and pattern.