After a brilliant experience working on the Virago Modern Classics 40th Anniversary Series, It was a pleasure to work again with the amazing design department at Little, Brown, this time with Art Director Bekki Guyatt.

The brief was to feature large type on the cover with a fluid background pattern inspired by the Riemann Hypothesis. I found some similarities to my work in the intricate, curved, ornate nature of the different diagrams and I had already been experimenting with dotted fractals so everything slotted easily into place.

Henrietta Lovell is best known as the Rare Tea Lady. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with an appreciation for the best quality leaves. Her quest sees her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens in the Wuyi Shan in China to source the world’s most extraordinary tea. Infused takes us on a remarkable journey, introducing us to the people who grow and craft the precious leaves as well as the celebrated chefs who serve them. And always guiding us is Lovell herself, who tells the story of how her love affair with tea has shaped her life through times of both great joy and adversity. The result is a delicious infusion of travel writing, memoir, recipes and glorious photography, all written with Lovell’s unique charm and wit.

"I really enjoy the formative stage, when I’m shaping concepts and investigating the myriad ways they might be executed. If things are going well, it’s a rich phase that feels full of possibilities, and has that anything-might-happen air about it."