To connect with a painting it must resonate with experiences, events and emotions that are unique to you. It is these same emotions, though perhaps in different forms, with which the artist infuses a painting.

For Lynne Yancha, her paintings are characterized by “small moments of [her] life.” Though the moments she captures may be considered small, a folded quilt or an illuminated leaf, the deep feeling at the time of their genesis draws people to her watercolors. What allows for these emotions to be translated from artist to painting and then from painting to buyer is her creative process; time being the essential element.

Photographs are the starting point for Yancha’s watercolors and from them she begins to sketch. This is perhaps the most formative stage in her course of production because it is now that she can relive what she will eventually paint and “languish in the moment.”

Because Yancha’s process allots her considerable time with her subjects she does not feel a sense of loss when her work is sold. She likened her watercolors to pages in her journal and when the time comes to tear them out she “feels a great sense of hope, peace, love [and] light.”