![]() ![]() How did input from the book’s author inform the cover’s aesthetic? The Greek tragedy Alcestis is an underlying theme of the book.ģ. ![]() I initially envisioned torn paper revealing the word “Silent.” I ripped some watercolor paper in a way that unfurled to reveal first the word “Silent” and then a bust of a Greek goddess’s mouth much like Alcestis’s. What was your initial vision for the cover of The Silent Patient ? Eventually, the idea for a painting of a woman with some damage to it kept resurfacing for me.Ģ. I kept thinking, however, I still wanted to allude to painting, perhaps through some other means. I could have tried to replicate the paintings as described in the book but felt that there needed to be some room for the reader’s imagination through the author’s words. I found myself drawn to continue exploring painting as a theme for the design. In The Silent Patient, the protagonist is a painter. As such, the production used a special stock that resembled canvas and a high gloss lamination was used over the painted type to attain a linseed oil quality. The protagonist is an up-and-coming art dealer and the story is an observation of the art world in the late 1990s. ![]() I dealt with something similar once before, when I designed a cover for Steve Martin’s novel, An Object of Beauty. Was it a new challenge to design a cover for The Silent Patient, given one of the main characters is an artist? ![]()
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