This muralist took just about any position in building her career
This muralist took just about any position in building her career
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Blowing up small images and logos into 50-foot-wide murals might not have been what Cindy Fletcher Holden expected to do with her life.
“I graduated with a degree in painting. Not quite sure what I was going to do with that,” said Fletcher Holden, who lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
Holden’s early career was defined by her time as a sign painter and her unconventional approach to positioning her body while painting words on boats. “I would literally hang upside-down off the back of the boat and use the brush to form the letters. Over time, the hanging upside-down became my trademark.”
Eventually Fletcher Holden became a muralist, securing many different types of jobs. “I do murals in businesses, in private homes, in private schools, in public schools,” she said. “They’re all a challenge. Each one is different.”
After more than two decades of painting for a living, Fletcher Holden is not close to being done. “I’d like to keep on going for as long as I can,” she said.
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