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.
As an Iranian-American artist, much of her current research is focused on the spiritual history of Persian marbling and how it relates to other Eastern countries such as Japan, Turkey and Spain.
This research inspires her to create new techniques to build out marbled compositions in the tray, stepping away from the craft's history of function and pattern.