Lasting Love

October 2024. Autumn air turns cool and crisp, colours shift, the light fades. The garden has long served as a metaphor for nurturing ideas, relationships, and one’s own potential. I felt pulled to the gardens of Canuck Place by nature calm and quite whispers. While walking around looking at the fading colours of flowers, the wilting grasses, and the small details of the diverse plantings, I was inspired to ask the groundskeeper for clippers so I could collect some flowers to press. I had no real plan, just the urge to work with nature. In the garden as I gathered, I was able to reflect on the cycle of love and life.

The process of gathering, pressing and creating “Lasting Love” became a project I innately needed in the first months after Maggie passed. I immediately understood that this work would be a way to create, reflect and remain close to what had happened while processing the unfathomable. I knew in my heart it would be a work I would share to tell the story of “Lasting Love,” the love a parent carries forever after losing a child. The process was cathartic, a reflection on fragility and life. I handled each delicate flower, each blade of grass, with the love and the attention I had given to my daughter.

The support and care provided by Canuck Place as Maggie’s life neared its end was unlike anything I had ever experienced. Our family was living through one of life’s most profound experiences, the death of a child. Canuck Place with its beautiful gardens and grounds sustained us. Nature nurtured, offered inspiration and escape, and provided solace.

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Artwork made by Amy Bradshaw in memory of her beloved daughter Maggie.

Pressed flowers, grasses, and leaves. All plant matter was gathered from the gardens located at Canuck Place Children's Hospice. Vancouver, B.C. in October 2024.

Maggie Sloane Bradshaw died on the morning on October 27, 2024 at Canuck Place. She died peacefully and with dignity. She was surrounded by her immediate family, we embraced her in a big group bear hug, she was surrounded in love.

My intention with this piece is to donate it to Canuck Place Children's hospice this upcoming Spring, 2026. I would like to have it be sold and 100% of the proceeds be donated to help other children who are receiving compassionate care through this very special place. A place that I am personally connected with forever.