• Project: Wind in the Willows, Written by Kenneth Grahame
  • Commissioned By: Usborne Children's Books
  • Purpose: 335 page Children's Fiction
  • Brief: I started by getting to know the characters from Kenneth Grahame's classic by re-reading the title. I then tried to bring the animals to life in my sketchbook, capturing their personalities and interaction. The artwork is mainly made up of full plate illustrations, with a few chapter headings throughout the book, this gave me the chance to really illustrate, in detail, my favourite moments from the story. I tried to create some moments of quiet tension and other moments of action. Capturing an atmosphere, the humour of the book and the sense of place in Grahame's world were very important factors to me. My ambition with the illustrations was to try and create and combine a partly realistic and partly more stylised set of work.
  • ISBN: 978-1409532712