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The Forgotten Garden is available as posters and prints from Printler (Europe & USA)! It’s also available for purchase on Society6 (USA) as art prints, jigsaw puzzles as well as some other print products.
This illustration is also featured in my art book Faraway Dreaming, along with my other mixed media work from 2015–2025.
The Forgotten Garden is one of my mixed media illustrations from a few years back. I originally designed this illustration for the back cover of an art book that I was planning to self-publish in the early 2020s. However, my health issues and other life circumstances got in the way, and the book project has been on hold ever since. This book is still dear to me, and I think there will be a day when I’m able to get back to it. I just need to first be sure that the more important things are safe and secure before tackling any big projects again.
I used mixed media to create this piece. I drew most of the linework with ink pens on paper, then scanned the drawing and continued adding colours digitally. I really like things to be quite rough and sketchy. To create even more texture I like to use my own hand painted watercolour elements together with the lineart.
I have a thing for lush and overgrown gardens. I can spend hours in such places with my camera, especially during evening dusk. The best gardens are old, have many layers to them and are filled with mysterious shadows. You can almost get lost in there and forget everything else for a moment. I like it when you cannot quite tell where exactly the garden ends and the wild begins.
Thank you for reading this far. ♥ If you enjoy my illustrations, you might be interested in checking out the print products that are sold at my Society6 store (USA) and my Printler store (Europe).
Below you can find a couple examples of the available items that feature The Forgotten Garden. These are my own photographs, by the way – I like to order product samples for some promo shots and personal testing every now and then.
The Forgotten Garden art print: link to Society6 (USA)
(You can also get posters and prints in Europe, from Printler!)
The print in my photo is the size Small (13″ x 16″) from Society6, but there are several size options in the shop, and you can buy the print framed or unframed.
Dragon Hills jigsaw puzzle: link to Society6
You can choose a puzzle with 500 or 1000 pieces.
You can see the 500 piece set here in my photos.
Images, text & artwork © Ulla Thynell.