Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: The Fiction of the Soul Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977, London) is a painter of ghosts. Her subjects are not real people; they are “composites” of memories, drawings, and found images. She works with a muted, earthy palette—greens, browns, and deep blues—and often completes a painting in a single day to maintain its emotional…