Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome visual artist Cynthia Yatchman from Seattle with four vibrant paintings from her Covid Color series. In the midst of Covid quarantine, Cynthia filled her studio space with plants and flowers and set to painting with alcohol inks on yupo paper. The results are rich in color and sensual of texture. Covid Color 2023y and Covid Color 2023m reflect the textural relationship between flowers and human flesh and blood. I am especially taken with the female figures–one half face on the left side, another seated up center and one dancing away on the right–that appear if you study 2023m closely. Alcohol inks spread on paper similarly to watercolor, creating serendipitous shapes, but the alcohol inks layer more easily, intensifying rather than blending, giving further possibilities for contrast. Covid Color 2023v and Covid Color 2023a are the abstract equivalent of landscapes, the first feeling like a glimpse of fairyland in mossy purples and greens and the second bright, joyful splotches of various hues that evoke algae and colored water. Cynthia is adept at creating different moods and textures.
Experience these Covid Color paintings in Synkroniciti’s November 30th issue, “Space,” Vol. 5, No. 4, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle-based artist and art instructor. A former ceramicist, she received her B.F.A. in painting (UW). She switched from 3D to 2D and has remained there ever since. She works primarily on paintings, prints and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections. She has exhibited on both coasts, extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, SPU, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers and the Pacific Science Center. She is a member of the Seattle Print Art Association, CoCA (Center of Contemporary Art) and Puget Sound Painters of the Northwest.