Cynthia West is known for painting, poetry, photography, digital imaging and book arts. Her home, where she has lived for over thirty years with her husband and family, is a healing center as well as her studio and gallery. Her works are collected world-wide. She is the author of four collections of poetry, For Beauty Way, Inked Wingbeat, Santa Fe, 1990, 1000 Stone Buddhas, Inked Wingbeat, 1993, Rainbringer, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2004 and The New Sun, Sunstone Press, 2007.