The Secret Garden

Bookcover

My aim with this book cover project was to capture the wonder of the classic book 'The Secret Garden', by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

I was compelled to trigger the imagination of readers both young and old alike, and to show the poetry of simple things, like a garden filled with wild flowers. The spine includes the detail of the garden's key, under the grass.

The illustration for this book cover is entirely analog. The materials - ranging in opacity - are gouache, coloured pencils, watercolour, pen, conte pencils and graphite, and they were layered extensively to create the desired effect of a wild garden. The typeface for 'The Secret Garden' was hand drawn and integrated onto the illustration digitally.