Poet, Artist,
& Observer
Poet, Artist, & Observer
Bittersweet: The Certainty of Change, Cynthia Winter’s debut collection of poetry and original art, is now available.
—About Cynthia
She writes from what she witnesses. She draws what stays with her.
Cynthia Winter is a poet and visual artist who finds the world most itself in its small, specific encounters. Two elderly sisters pause on an avenue; two deer approach and don’t startle or run. A Baltimore oriole settles in a Provincetown backyard. A squid, rescued from the shallows, shimmers red and orange as it swims toward depth. These are the moments that find their way into her poems and her drawings: the natural world and the human one, briefly sharing the same frame. She has been finding them, and recording them, for most of her life.
I am drawn to see, to bear witness. It is my gift.
—Books
Debut Poetry Collection
Bittersweet: The Certainty of Change
Cynthia Winter’s debut collection: eighty-eight pages of poems and original art, written from a lifetime of close observation. Moving through five sections (Portraits, Impressions, Seasons, Snapshots, and Spirit), she finds meaning in what passes quickly: milkweed pods that don’t break open, they burst; an old man who carries his blind dog into the bay each evening to remind him of his youth; a dying woman whose silence finally breaks, pulling the room in with her. Original drawings and photographs by the author accompany the poems throughout.
The kind of book that makes the ordinary world feel more worth inhabiting.
—Artwork
Each Drawing a Meditation on a Single Thing
Her drawings move in close, letting one subject fill the page: a raven’s head, a cluster of mushrooms, a sunflower. She draws them in bloom and in decline, giving a wilting flower the same care as an open one. Her color follows feeling rather than fact, so mushrooms turn plum and magenta and sunflowers sit against deep blue.
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Poetry Collections
& Art Prints
Bittersweet: The Certainty of Change is available in the shop, alongside limited-edition prints of Cynthia’s drawings and paintings. Each print is signed and numbered by hand, in an edition of 25.
Deep cobalt blue fills almost the entire circular field, broken only by a many-armed, radiating form in orange, pink, and red that spreads out from a pale blue, eye-like center. Fine golden tendrils trail from the lower edge of the composition, drifting like cilia in water. A pale crescent rests at the top of the circle like a flash of surface light. The scale of the thing is impossible to pin down: it could be the view through a microscope or a glimpse of something enormous and distant.
The Artwork
Artist: Cynthia Winter
Medium: Mixed media
Original Size: 8½ x 9 in. (H x W)
Year: 2019
The Print
Type: Giclée reproduction of the original artwork
Edition: Limited edition of 25, signed and numbered by the artist
Paper Size: 14 x 11 in. (H x W)
Paper: Somerset Velvet, 100% cotton rag, acid-free, 255gsm
Inks: Archival pigment ink, rated for 150+ years
Year Printed: 2026
Ships: Flat and unframed
About This Edition
Each print is a giclée, a fine art printing method that uses archival pigment inks for exceptional color accuracy and detail. Prints are made on Somerset Velvet, a 100% cotton rag paper with the soft, textured surface of traditional watercolor paper, chosen for both its tactile quality and its archival permanence. Once this print edition sells out, it will not be reprinted.
Questions?
Sizes, framing, care, packaging, shipping, and returns are all answered on the FAQs page.
Tithonia in full color: red-orange petals layered in colored pencil over watercolor and ink, set against a soft, hazy blue-green ground. Three blooms appear at different stages, one fully open and facing forward, one turned in profile, one still closed in bud, with a scatter of blue-green leaves rendered with the same patience as the flowers themselves. The palette is warmer and more saturated than the plant in life, which gives the piece its particular charge: a garden remembered in heightened color.
The Artwork
Artist: Cynthia Winter
Medium: Mixed media
Original Size: 13 x 11 in. (H x W)
Year: 2023
The Print
Type: Giclée reproduction of the original artwork
Edition: Limited edition of 25, signed and numbered by the artist
Paper Size: 20 x 16 in. (H x W)
Paper: Somerset Velvet, 100% cotton rag, acid-free, 255gsm
Inks: Archival pigment ink, rated for 150+ years
Year Printed: 2026
Ships: Rolled and unframed
About This Edition
Each print is a giclée, a fine art printing method that uses archival pigment inks for exceptional color accuracy and detail. Prints are made on Somerset Velvet, a 100% cotton rag paper with the soft, textured surface of traditional watercolor paper, chosen for both its tactile quality and its archival permanence. Once this print edition sells out, it will not be reprinted.
Questions?
Sizes, framing, care, packaging, shipping, and returns are all answered on the FAQs page.
Six mushrooms cluster together as they emerge from the soil, caps in shades of magenta, plum, and rose, each dusted with small white spots. They’re shown from multiple angles at once: some caps tip forward to reveal their gilled undersides in fine striped detail, others are seen from above, domed and solid. Pale curved stems lean into one another at the base, rooted in moss and fern that anchor the piece in a specific, grounded place. Warm and slightly fantastical, it brings the quiet strangeness of a forest floor indoors.
The Artwork
Artist: Cynthia Winter
Medium: Colored pencil, watercolor, pastel, pen, and ink
Original Size: 15 x 11 in. (H x W)
Year: 2024
The Print
Type: Giclée reproduction of the original artwork
Edition: Limited edition of 25, signed and numbered by the artist
Paper Size: 20 x 16 in. (H x W)
Paper: Somerset Velvet, 100% cotton rag, acid-free, 255gsm
Inks: Archival pigment ink, rated for 150+ years
Year Printed: 2026
Ships: Rolled and unframed
About This Edition
Each print is a giclée, a fine art printing method that uses archival pigment inks for exceptional color accuracy and detail. Prints are made on Somerset Velvet, a 100% cotton rag paper with the soft, textured surface of traditional watercolor paper, chosen for both its tactile quality and its archival permanence. Once this print edition sells out, it will not be reprinted.
Questions?
Sizes, framing, care, packaging, shipping, and returns are all answered on the FAQs page.
The raven’s head tilts back, beak open mid-call, the eye lit a single deep red against otherwise total black and white. Built almost entirely from fine, dense pen strokes, the feathers carry weight and direction rather than flat shading; every line follows the curve of the bird’s neck and shoulder. The effect is immediate and physical, a sound caught mid-air. A striking, graphic piece for a wall that wants presence.
The Artwork
Artist: Cynthia Winter
Medium: Pen, ink, and watercolor
Original Size: 9 x 6 in. (H x W)
Year: 2026
The Print
Type: Giclée reproduction of the original artwork
Edition: Limited edition of 25, signed and numbered by the artist
Paper Size: 14 x 11 in. (H x W)
Paper: Somerset Velvet, 100% cotton rag, acid-free, 255gsm
Inks: Archival pigment ink, rated for 150+ years
Year Printed: 2026
Ships: Flat and unframed
About This Edition
Each print is a giclée, a fine art printing method that uses archival pigment inks for exceptional color accuracy and detail. Prints are made on Somerset Velvet, a 100% cotton rag paper with the soft, textured surface of traditional watercolor paper, chosen for both its tactile quality and its archival permanence. Once this print edition sells out, it will not be reprinted.
Questions?
Sizes, framing, care, packaging, shipping, and returns are all answered on the FAQs page.