My work almost always starts with a figurative form, and then everything else grows around it. It's as if the figure gives birth to the rest; without the figure, the painting cannot exist. I am a Mix-media, multi-cultural artist and sculptor with a focus on nature and the clothed human form. Simplicity, peace, harmony, and calm is my mantra. I believe my art is created out of the over flow of love, wisdom, peace and faith given to me by my heavenly Father to share with the world. This is echo throughout my work. My work is about bringing about change where you stand. 

In my mind and artist must withdraw from the what is and rely on the what if, and why not. The probability of something greater. Man is limited by what he sees with his eyes. One can only achieve true creativity by stepping outside of sight and into insight.  We must remove our blinders in order to see true reality. By doing this we will be able to change our world

My Bronze pieces are birth out of my paintings.  Each painting is and incubator for something greater, as I recreate the different forms from my paintings in clay they become an entirely new body of work. This new work seems to come alive in my hands in three-dimensional form, birth from a creation to form yet another creation. Much like our creator formed us. 

Art and creativity were meant to be shared.

Ms. Cutler chose to use gilding in her painting after a visit to the Louvre in Paris. Her favorite galley contained the religious art of the Italian Renaissance period. She was fascinated with the use of metal leaf in the work. It was used not only as a form of showing of the divine, but also on garments. This is where she first discovered her love for this art form. She marveled at its illusional effect of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. After returning home she began to learn all she could about gilding and the materials needed. She decided to use metal leaf in her paintings to enhance and highlight the illusion of simplistic grandeur. Ms. Cutler works with several different types of metal leaf: 21 and 23 kt. gold, white gold, copper, variegated and dutch metal leaf. The variegated leaf is one of her favorite metals. It is a heat-treated composition that creates colorful patterns on the surface of the metal. You will see this metal in quite a few of Ms. Cutler’s paintings. She discontinued the use of sterling silver metal in her painting because it tarnished, and exchanged it with white gold.

Ms. Cutler designs her gowns and robes with a sense of delicate elegance, glamor, and sophistication. In her paintings, Ms. Cutler uses two forms of acrylic mediums: a liquid acrylic, which is a fluid version of acrylic having the consistency of ink that produces some amazing iridescent colors, and a more concentrated condensed acrylic. She also uses ink instead of water along with her acrylic to eliminate water’s diluting effects on the colors. She chose watercolor paper for its texture, surface, and durability. Unlike canvas, watercolor paper creates the illusion of delicacy that works well with her painting style. She did, however, experience some degree of difficulty when applying metal leaf to the surface of the watercolor paper because of its absorbency. Through trial and error, she finally came up with a solution that worked.

She purposely leaves out the face. “I find faces irrelevant to this work. They would only add complications to the viewer. As with my paintings, my sculptures are meant to be enjoyed in their entirety, from the form out, not just for the sake of a face.” Ms. Cutler ideas and style references are often from her own imagination: old photos that she has purchased at estate sales or flea markets, late European masters and the Asian culture. “I find this eclectic blend of cultures and forms fascinating and refreshing.” She leaves the negative space in her painting to their own devices to form as they please. “I find when left alone negative space creates a nice sense of balance giving the viewer a place to find calm and rest. It’s like having a place to lay one's head.”

Mrs. Cutler uses two basic sculpting techniques: Relief and Sculpture in the Round. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise. To create a relief one must give the appearance that the sculpted materials have been raised above the background plane. There are different degrees of relief, however, Mrs. Cutler prefers to use the High Relief technique (Alto-rilievo). High Relief is created when more than fifty percent of the depth is shown. The other technique she uses is the Sculpture in the Round or freestanding sculpture. The Sculpture in the round is not attached to any other surface (except for possibly a base). Reliefs are at least partly attached to a background surface whereas freestanding sculptures are not.

Mrs. Cutler sculptures are unique,  they began their journey as paintings. Ms Cutler started transforming her paintings into sculptures in 2012. However, the idea came to her 9 years before when she began creating a series of paintings entitled the “Awakening of the Spirit”. While working on the painting entitled “Mother’s Love” she noticed a free-forming sculpture-like feel to the image. As she stood back to observe her work it became clear that this piece would one day be transformed into a sculpture.