Click on the image to watch a video about the creation of the “Debussy in Jersey” stamp series. Young stamp designer Will Bertram explains his approach to illustrating the La Corbiere stamp from the new “Debussy in Jersey” stamp series. The stamp series shows six places that the French composer Claude Debussy visited with his lover during his visit to the island of Jersey in 1904. The shape of the wave on the 98 pence stamp is inspired by the painting “Under the Wave of Kanagawa” (also known as “The Great Wave”) by the Japanese painter Hokusai. Debussy had a print of the “Great Wave” hanging on the wall of his studio.
