Adriana Picker has a career many illustrators would pine for – she’s illustrated four books, held numerous exhibitions of her illustrations and paintings, and her list of clients includes Vogue, Gourmet Traveller, Mecca Cosmetics, and T2.

Despite the impressive bio and dream projects, Adriana opens up about a particular variety of creative rut that can be spurred on by doing the thing you love to a point of exhaustion.

Adriana is candid about the privileges and pitfalls of working on dream projects – and shares how she had to return to the mundane, ordinary, basic elements of self-care to rebuild after burnout.

We talk about the book writing process, seasonal routines, saying no, productive rest, and whether you’re in the ebb or the flow, the winter-fallow or the blossoming spring – it’s all relevant and important to the creative process.

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