Eiliad

Inside the image.

A square, softly focused portrait fills the cover. A woman is shown from the shoulders up in close profile, facing right and looking slightly upwards. Her face sits in the right half of the image; a mass of dark, loose curls spreads across much of the left and centre, framing her forehead and cheek. Her lips are parted, and a small bright stud earring is visible. A pale garment shows at the lower edge, with one shoulder extending towards the right border. The crop cuts off the top of her hair and most of her body, bringing the face and curls close to the edges.

The background is indistinct and nearly merges with the portrait in warm golden yellow, cream and amber tones. Light falls strongly across the face and bare shoulder, while the hair remains a deep brown shadow, though individual curls catch reddish highlights. A hazy, luminous area behind her face gives way to darker, more saturated colour around the hair and lower left. The image has a diffuse, softly blended photographic appearance, with a warm cast and little sharp contrast; no separate border is visible.

The lettering is integrated into the image. “CARYL PARRY JONES” runs vertically down the far left in spaced, narrow cream capitals, with the letters oriented to read from bottom to top. Near the upper left, “eiliad” appears in large, slanted orange script with a fine dark outline or shadow; it overlaps the warm background and the upper edge of the hair. The words sit close to the cover’s edges and leave the face unobstructed.