Category: Portrait

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Speculative: Penguin Book Cover

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood

Speculative: NYT By the Book

Weekly Column Interview with Margaret Atwood

Part of a series of portraits of history’s great thinkers: scientists, philosophers, writers, activists, and artists. Detailed portraits and portraits stylizied in a more simplistic way.

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On the Origin of the Thesis

On the Origin of the Thesis

How Charles Darwin Made History in his Garden Shed

A speculative non-fiction book that dives deep into the intimate history of Darwin’s home laboratory at Down House and the scientific process that lead to his writing his theory of evolution On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Part of a series of portraits of history’s great thinkers: scientists, philosophers, writers, activists, and artists.

Speculative: NYT Book Review

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Book of Lives

Book of Lives

A Memoir of Sorts

A speculative cover for Margaret Atwood’s 2025 memoir published by Penguin.

Using an imperfect hand-painted portrait establishes the intimacy of the memoir genre and allows the reader’s imagination to bridge the gap between the author as a person and as a public figure.

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