BOOK COVER DESIGN SERIES

Memory rises
with the steam.

This aquatint is inspired by Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, focusing on the madeleine moment as an exploration of how memory can emerge unexpectedly through the senses. The image begins with a simple, familiar scene, a teacup resting on a table, before opening into something less defined. From the cup, linden tea steam rises and gradually transforms into a layered flow of forms, suggesting memories as they surface, shift, and dissolve.

TECHNIQUE : Aquatint etching

A series of original watercolour cover designs for Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time — each volume interpreted through hand-painted illustration, with the sensory world of Proust's prose translated into colour and form.

  • Watercolour. The Madeleine moment.

  • Watercolour. The flowers caught between opening and letting go.