Hill House - An Imagined Reconstruction

Pencil

My own rendition of Hill House, as imagined by the writer Shirley Jackson in her classic novel ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ from 1959. I wanted to visualise the house as closely as possible to what was described by Jackson in her novel and based my reconstruction on American domestic architecture of the 1870s. I was also inspired by the imagery of Robert Wise’s famous dramatisation of the novel ‘The Haunting’ from 1963, where his high-contrast external shots of the filming location, Ettington Park in Warwickshire, emphasise a dramatic and malevolent sentience. I used graphite on A2 paper.