Artwork
The Closer You Look
Reticent to talk to God directly, she photographs the dragonfly at the pond.
—About the Work
Made in Layers
Cynthia Winter works primarily on paper: pen and ink, watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel, though her more recent pieces have included acrylic on canvas. The media are rarely used alone. Most pieces layer ink over watercolor, or watercolor over colored pencil, building depth through accumulated marks.
Her subjects mostly come from the natural world, but she also works in more abstract territory: mandalas, circular compositions that feel at once microscopic and cosmic, where her attention turns to pure form and color.
Art is so central to Cynthia’s life that her home in Troy is filled with work by artists from around the world. It resembles a museum.
A scream of joy
ricocheted inside me.
—Shop Art Prints
Bring the Work Home
A selection of Cynthia’s drawings and paintings is available as fine art prints. Browse the collection and find something to live with.
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.
This raven is shown in profile, beak closed, a steady rust-colored ring around a watchful eye. Pen and ink builds the feather structure in dense, deliberate strokes, but pale blue and silvery-gray have been worked into the black, so what reads as solid darkness gives way, on a closer look, to real color and texture. An inward, contemplative presence: a bird caught not in motion, but in stillness.
The Artwork
Artist: Cynthia Winter
Medium: Pen, ink, and mixed media
Original Size: 11 x 12 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: 16 x 20 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.