2025 Illustration of the Year Winner Flore Picard
Thank you Flore Picard, for your wonderful submission to the SLF’s 2025 Illustration of the Year, “Star Thief.” Look for Picard’s artwork on our site, as well as future SLF newsletters, promo, and other content!
“Star Thief” is a story about creating freedom. In a futuristic world of glass and metal, she made herself wings out of her prison, a harness out of her shackles, and flew up to seek out the stars. Inspired by the myth of Icarus, but her story will have a different ending: here, it is night and there is no sun. Flying into the sky, the Star Thief is daring but wise beyond her youth; rather than getting burned, she will embrace and befriend the stars.
– Flore Picard on the inspiration behind “Star Thief”
Flore Picard is a French artist with a passion for patterns and systems, for the beauty at the edge of chaos and the complexity of being human. Fascinated with words and languages for as long as they can remember, they have found ways to express their inner world through both linguistics and the grammar of visual art.
