During my final year project at university, designing interior and exterior sets based on the short story, ‘The Veldt’ by Ray Bradbury, I created a collection of wallpaper designs to decorate the interior walls. The term, crow’s court, was the primary inspiration behind this design. Each hand drawn and painted element in this pattern is symbolic to themes and emotions present in the story and setting.

Within the artwork, nine crows encircle the scales of justice while perched on walnut and oak branches. Walnut symbolises wisdom and knowledge and is the most common wood used to make a judge’s gavel and sounding block. Each crow is garbed in outfits befitting a medieval court as twisting scrolls determine their rank, with their floating black feathers synonymous with protection and clarity.

Created using watercolours and edited into a textile design using Photoshop