{"id":50993,"date":"2022-06-28T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=50993"},"modified":"2022-06-28T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:24:21","slug":"cover-artist-cynthia-llanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-cynthia-llanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist: Cynthia Llanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50996\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50996\" class=\"wp-image-50996 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist-summers-first-light-cynthia-llanes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"948\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer&#8217;s First Light. Cynthia Llanes, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>After receiving her Bachelor\u2019s in Fine Art, Cynthia Llanes became active in the Los Angeles art scene. Since childhood, she had been drawn to sketching and designing clothes for her dolls. \u201cI was always creating,\u201d Llanes says, \u201calways exploring, experimenting. Arts and crafts have always been a part of my life.\u201d She explored a career in fashion as a textile designer while devoting more of her time to painting and trying out different mediums, including acrylic, watercolor, oil and mixed media. Her work was displayed in juried shows and exhibitions in L.A.<\/p>\n<p>Llanes grew up in the Philippines, surrounded by natural beauty. \u201cWe have beautiful vistas of mountains, coastal terrains and breathtaking sunsets,\u201d she says. \u201cSummertime was always spent vacationing with family and taking field trips to the countryside with friends and excursions to white sand beaches. Being surrounded with tropical forests, waterfalls and lush mountain ranges has been a great influence in my present work as a plein air artist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her first solo exhibit there, in Manila, Llanes portrayed dancers on canvas. She says she was first drawn to painting the human figure, going back to her childhood drawings: \u201cwomen with red lipstick, wearing high heels and carrying a purse.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50997\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50997\" class=\"wp-image-50997\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Cynthia-Llanes-The-Firetree.-Cynthia-Llanes-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Cynthia-Llanes-The-Firetree.-Cynthia-Llanes-artist.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Cynthia-Llanes-The-Firetree.-Cynthia-Llanes-artist-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Cynthia-Llanes-The-Firetree.-Cynthia-Llanes-artist-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Cynthia-Llanes-The-Firetree.-Cynthia-Llanes-artist-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Cynthia-Llanes-The-Firetree.-Cynthia-Llanes-artist-810x593.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Cynthia-Llanes-The-Firetree.-Cynthia-Llanes-artist-1140x835.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Firetree. Cynthia Llanes, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This preference for figurative rather than landscapes was only furthered with the life drawing required during her university studies. \u201cI find grace and movement in the lines and forms of the human anatomy,\u201d she says. During time in the 1980s while serving as a missionary in Asia, she was awakened to lives different than her own. \u201cThis travel allowed me to witness extreme poverty and persecution of women in many restricted countries,\u201d Llanes says. \u201cTheir tenacity and devotion to their families compelled me to paint them\u2014a series done in pastel that I exhibited in Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, living in Western North Carolina, she hikes and finds herself drawn to the wonder of the natural world. She credits the move with transforming her vision. \u201cLiving in WNC has truly been an inspirational awakening,\u201d she says. \u201cSuch an abundance of beautiful landscapes and sceneries! I found a more emotional connection with nature and began painting en plein air. Exploring and painting the terrain with fellow plein air artists is always fun and motivating. And, most of the time, I use my plein air paintings for larger studio works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her, there is no difference in the technique that goes into landscapes versus that which goes into figurative work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a wonderful parallelism between landscape painting and figurative art,\u201d she says. \u201cBoth can be executed with dynamic grace and expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50998\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50998\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Trio.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Trio-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Trio-1024x548.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Trio-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Trio-810x433.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Cover-Artist_-Trio-1140x610.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Hidden Waterfall; The Sky is Not the Limit; Water&#8217;s Edge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The spark of an idea, a color palette, a mood, a concept or scenery\u2014any of these can mark the start of a painting. \u201cI like to find that \u2018magic\u2019 a scene offers, no matter how ordinary it may seem,\u201d she says. \u201cI have always been captivated by natural phenomena such as the movement of light and shadows, the ever-changing colors of the skies and the reflections on water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bold brushstrokes and palette knife effects help give her work the movement and atmospheric depth she wants. \u201cI like to use bright and bold colors,\u201d she says. \u201cMy color palette is usually complementary colors to produce warm and cool contrasts. My goal is to amplify and enhance the beauty found in nature. For instance, I like to exaggerate the intensity of light on a tree or the bright reflection of a sunrise on the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of her greatest influences have been the Impressionist and Expressionist masters. Sometimes Llanes sketches ideas for a painting, letting the scene before her be a reference and inspiration. At other times, she says, \u201cI just directly work on the canvas and paint away, allowing my intuitive subconscious to express the subject. I believe that there is no single approach in painting, but one mind and heart of the artist. The beauty of this process is that it is a feeling of freedom for me. I do not want to be restricted by rules. Either way, the creativity is freedom and that\u2019s what I love most about painting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/CynthiaLlanesArtist.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CynthiaLlanesArtist.com<\/a>, Facebook (Color Your Heart) and Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cynthiallanesartstudio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cynthiallanesartstudio<\/a>. Visits to Windy Porch Studios, located in Candler, are welcome by appointment. Find Cynthia\u2019s art at Asheville Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Avenue, Asheville.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving her Bachelor\u2019s in Fine Art, Cynthia Llanes became active in the Los Angeles art scene. 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