Death of the maiden

Illustration cover art for ‘Tess’- commissioned by Oxford Baroque-pop guitar gauntlet Death of the Maiden. The lyrics are inspired byThomas Harry’s ‘Tess of the D’urbervilles which delighted the literature nerd that lurks beneath my drawing hand. Delicate tragic spliced together in a bloody splash of symbolism assure me that agonising over York notes all those years ago wasn’t all for nothing….The song is one meteoric muse for this sorrowful sparrow illustration.

Concept sketches