MaryLinda Claremont, California
A very touching painting. The girl looks rather sad, however she may be thoughtful as to how she will arrange her flowers or she may be a bit chilled as it looks like a gloomy day. Perhaps someone has died and the Church bells are chiming calling for everyone to mourn.

Swati Singh from New Delhi
The sky at first looks unremarkable, but look at it first and then at the girl's face, and suddenly it feels like the break of dawn, a fresh morning.

Tom Draper from Kent
A really beautiful arrangement of colours makes this painting a joy to behold. The painting also does not suffer the over sentimentality of some victorian works. The contrast is the infancy of the girl and her chance of life and the death of winter, and implied by the church - human death.