The direct gaze of the stag stops the viewer and draws one into the image. A dragonfly is featured in a mandala-like design, Cryptic carvings are glimpsed between the white roses and fuchsia blooms. Combining the natural and the mystic, the image evokes an earlier time when mankind worshiped wilder gods, and celebrated the Winter Solstice.

Artist Jonna Hyttinen, aka @scandy_girl lives in Finland and illustrates fantastic fauna in delicate watercolors.