amazing paintings of tomasz alen kopera could have come straight out of Children of the Fallen

Cat Rambo, a wonderful writer and editor of Fantasy magazine (now Lightspeed), did a developmental edit (not to be confused with copy-editing, which I have done by Rick Fisher over at E-Quality books) on Children of the Fallen—and she just sent me a link to some paintings that could have come right out of my book.  Look at these:

Aren’t these terrific?  They’re the work of Tomasz Alen Kopera, a Polish painter, now living in Ireland, and  I love love love them.  So spooky and weird and powerful….

I’m telling you, it’s as if I hired Mr. Kopera to do some illustrations for me.  Which isn’t a bad idea, actually….

Has he been reading my mind?  Have I been reading his?  I could put character names to some of these from my book and they would perfectly fit.  Forces of nature personified (or ossified?) doing their work, which is never easy, nor painless, though it may contain joy….

Gah!  This one knocks my socks off.  There is pleasure in it, but also loss of self, a being so much larger than human.  Just the sort of thing I tried to get at with parts of Children…

For more go to the artist’s excellent website.