SOUTHAMPTON PRESS, Sunday Aug. 6, 2006
"Emotional Intensity Links Disparate Pieces" by Eric Ernst

       "Cecile Brunswick...uses a more overall approach to compositional structure and creates an atmosphere of gentle reverie through a lack of detail that conveys a sense of viewing the images through a thick summer haze, as in "Pastel Houses, Tangiers" (oil on canvas, 2002)."

Review of Karin Sanders Gallery Summer Group Show, July 2006

Richard A. Brilliant, Anna S. Garbedian Professor in the Humanities,
Columbia University, New York

       Cecile Brunswick has made the difficult transition from commercial to art photography, and then onto abstract landscape painting, the last endeavor maturing in the creation of free-form oils on paper imbued with a sense of ease.

       Her recent works on paper, inspired by the hot colors of Provence and Morocco, are site-specific invocations of an immediate visual effect; they are executed with a delicate, but firm touch, resembling in their imagery the finality of monotypes but filled with the greater lightness of ground typical of watercolor.

      A viewer may be induced by their pleasurable aspect to discern a feminine sensibility at work in her paintings on paper, if such a sensibility can ever be successfully generalized.

      Yet, because of their seemingly flexible shapes and expansive swatches of primary colors, the abstract nature of their coming-into-being suggests the creative tension in her depiction of places once seen and constantly revisualized, as if the pleasure to be gained in their contemplation is an ever-renewable asset of experience.