Johanna Basford ... odd flamingos,” says Basford. That free-range childhood granted the 33-year-old illustrator, who is best known for her colouring book Secret Garden, a wild imagination ...

Not far from Johanna Basford’s home on ... Basford’s debut, Secret Garden, led the charge. It’s filled with filigreed visions of ferns and flowers and frogs rendered delicately in black ...