Cindy Compert Fine Art

Meet Cindy Compert

Born and educated in New York, Cindy has been painting as long as she’s been holding a paintbrush. She did her first commission at age 15 and after a long career in IT, she is now painting full time as she travels around the world with her partner Kevin in their Jeep. Getting off-road enables her to access unspoiled places that few will ever experience. Her goal is to share that beauty and inspire others.

Based in Southern California, Cindy comes from a family of technologists, artists, and dreamers. Her dad was a design engineer who helped erect the first TV antenna superstructure on the Empire State Building and invented the barking dog doorbell. Her mom was a technical illustrator who worked on the Lunar Rover project. Cindy followed in both their footsteps.  First, she had a successful career as a cybersecurity and privacy executive, culminating as Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer at IBM.  Now, she is focusing full time on her professional art career as a landscape oil painter. 

Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the West including Art Mozaik Santa Fe, 3 Square Gallery in Ft. Collins CO,  Randy Higbee Gallery, Debra Huse Gallery, Laguna Plein Air Painters, as well as exhibitions with the California Art Club, Destination Art, and Redondo Beach Art Group.  Most recently, Cindy had two paintings featured in the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum's 2023 'New Frontiers' show. Awards include Honorable Mention in the 2023 Destination Art Associates Show, 3rd place in the 2007 Manhattan Beach Arts Festival and Honorable Mention in the Nassau County, NY Young Artists Exhibition. Cindy is a member of the American
Impressionist Society, California Art Club, Laguna Plein Air Painters, and Destination Art. 

She is a Winston Scholar and University Honors Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa,  who holds a BA in Art History and an MBA in Information Technology from New York University.

Keeping warm with electric blanket Moab Utah


"Outhouse with a View", Steens Mountain Wilderness, Oregon

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Artist Statement

Nature is a boundless canvas, a symphony of color and form. It is a constant source of inspiration and wonder, a reminder of the beauty and fragility of our world. As an artist, I travel to remote locations few will ever experience. I strive to capture the essence of unspoiled nature in my work, to explore its infinite variations and to pay homage to its majesty. Through my art, I seek to create a sense of connection and reverence for the natural world, to inspire others to appreciate and protect it. In this age of environmental crisis, my art serves as a reminder of the need to preserve and cherish the beauty of nature for future generations.

Why I Create

Painting in nature helped heal my broken heart and I have found true joy in portraying nature’s calm beauty and sharing it with others.  I have experienced a lifetime of bottling up my grief and finally coming to terms with loss—the death of so many loved ones including my dad at age 58 and my brother at age 54, years of infertility and depression, a miscarriage, a painful divorce. It was only in 2007 when my life was crumbling around me, that I rediscovered painting in nature as healing therapy, a way to slow down and let my emotions wash through me, and to express that on the canvas. Through this process, I have been able to acknowledge and let go of the grief and to share the beauty of the places I visit from a place of joy and celebration. I hope to share that celebration with others and help them heal too. 

In the News, A Sense of Home Charity

A Sense of Home furnishes housing for youth aging out of foster case. I donate a portion of my paintings to this organization because I believe that everyone deserves to enjoy beautiful, original art. Take a look at this news story from Fox 11 Los Angeles- one of my paintings gets a peek in the segment (on the left in photo). Please consider donating, it's such a worthy cause.