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The story behind Whatever Our Souls Are Made Of

The scene

The words are Emily Bronte's, from Wuthering Heights (1847): whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. The two lovers hold each other on the stormy heather moor, with the farmhouse on the ridge behind them and the line set across the sky. It is one of the most famous lines ever written about loving someone completely.

The style

A romantic Victorian oil painting: rich, warm colour, wind in the heather and the cloak, and a dark sky breaking open above them.

The inspiration

The look comes from Frank Dicksee's Romeo and Juliet (1884), Southampton City Art Gallery, for its romantic oil style. The lovers, the moor and the house are my own.

Style reference: Romeo and Juliet, Frank Dicksee (1884). Romantic Victorian oil painting, for one of the great love lines.

How it's made

I design each picture and refine it until it feels right, and I set the words myself. It's a print of a digital artwork in the style of a Victorian oil painting, not a hand-painted original. Each one carries my printed "Chapter & Scene" signature in the corner.

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