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Cindy Hadden is widely noted for vibrant color, paintings that are at once descriptive yet impressionistic, and for her wonderful sense of movement. Her designs are elegant, curious, and imaginative; some of her paintings could be described as realism with a touch of whimsy, others as daydreams with an obvious measure of truth. Either would be quite proper. Still others are pure imagination, presented in the style of Canada's "Group of Seven" impressionist trendsetters from the 1920s. Clearly, Hadden is capable of bringing any sort of feeling to her work she feels appropriate and enjoyable.

If there is a constant in Hadden's work, it is her activism. As she believes "art and activism go hand in hand." More often than not, however, her messages begin as a whisper the viewer simply cannot brush aside until they find themselves won over. Hadden works in ceramics, wood, linoleum cuts, watercolors, and gauche, but today concentrates most on acrylic and oil, reverting to other media when a work needs an exclamation point.

Hadden's flexible art is best explained by the artist herself: "Like most people," she said, "I seek truths in life and in art by realizing the imagery that leads my thought process; by crossing lines, questioning, experimenting, and moving away from traditionalism or what we think we see in the natural."