“I’ve had a book stuck in my head for a couple of years now, called The Winter Vault, by Anne Michaels. Life, death, water, earth, love, grief… Cycles. A novel written with such poetry that I couldn’t shake it. The image above is probably the least planned image I’ve created in a long time. I didn’t have a plan beforehand, I just started painting. The flower is fireweed, a native plant that grows after a forest fire, when everything has burnt to the ground… I thought it was suitable to the main character, Jean, thrown into grief after the death of her unborn child and to the story overall.” – Julia Breckenreid
ILLUSTRATION AGE 
Thoughts?