Just One Thing with Veronica Winters

Veronica Winters’ artwork “Child of Love” brings surreal, celestial beauty and kind energy to our February issue. Here she shares just one thing about the piece:

“My drawing titled “Child of Love” was inspired by various sources both visually and musically. A lot of inspiration came from a very beautiful but sad song titled “Child of Love” by Alvaro Santamaria and Jessica Om. The spirit and emotion of this song mirrored my feelings I experienced at a moment in time when my son was going through serious difficulties in life. When I was designing the image based on my references, the main subject was my photo of a classical sculpture of a boy I took somewhere in Italy. The sculpture looked alive to me and so I turned it into my artwork designing other elements and colors around the figure. The drawing ended up to represent childhood dreams, magic and hope with a bit of melancholy captured in the boy’s eyes.

It’s a large, 100 percent colored pencil drawing that takes a month of full-time work to complete.”

“Brookline Reservoir, my favorite walking loop, in the falll”