The Long Night — Winter 2025

Winter does not arrive gently here.

This collection gathers the images made during the longest stretch of the year—when light is scarce, fires are tended with care, and memory presses closer than comfort. Candles burn not for celebration, but for keeping watch. Evergreen boughs carry weight. Saints, crows, angels, and guardians stand where warmth and shadow meet.

These works are not seasonal decorations. They are winter witnesses.

Each piece in The Long Night — Winter 2025 reflects a moment of stillness: the hush after snowfall, the quiet endurance of the hearth, the unseen keeping of vows and names through darkness. This is a collection about survival without spectacle—about reverence, vigilance, and the soft defiance of flame against cold.

Created for those who understand that winter is not an ending, but a passage.

Always by candlelight,

Heather Lynn Donovan