The Wild Garden Project
Created initially for the Wild Garden Café, Amethyst in the heart of Chennai, designer/illustrator Jisha Unnikrishnan's charcoal and pen & ink botanical drawings were composed into a non-repeating 120 ft panorama without any repeating sections. The inspiration for the panorama came from French painter Henri Rousseau's dream-like pictures and Amethyst’s own tropical garden.
The large-scale artworks were hand-coloured using a variety of media from water colour to pencils, with the addition of birds, animals and more plants to this fantasy garden. These are now available as custom-made wallpaper that can be scaled to different spaces, and have also been adapted to art prints, notebooks, greeting cards, and home textiles.