Marcello Velho, an American designer based in Brighton (UK), gives birth to surprising blossoms composed mainly on computer. By mixing digital and manual techniques, the artiste creates works in which the abstract and the figurative blend. Flowers, eyes, birds, and other animals populate his minimalist[...]
Agnès Jonas is a freelance illustrator based in London. She works on atmospheric and minimalist images and develop ethereal universes where science fiction is never far away. Its Sci-Fi Botanicals series offers a collection of exotic flowers drawn with finesse and delicacy. Can you tell[...]
Dura Lee's illustrations are colorful and look like movie scenes. Grandiose landscapes, dreamy interiors and characters harnessed to simple stories or, on the contrary, caught up in supernatural contexts, enrich dense storytelling that fits into a single image. In her second graphic novel Memories of[...]
Japanese florist artist Azuma Makoto captures the life cycle of flowers through moving illustration. In 2016, he surrounded himself with London illustrator Katie Scott, specialized in botanical drawings and with animator James Paulley for his 3D animations. The two creatives explore a dense and detailed[...]
Born in Shanghai, illustrator Nicole Xu now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Her first picture book, All of A Sudden and Forever, Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing, written by Chris Barton, is published by Lerner Publishing. Throughout the pages, Nicole Xu[...]
Lisa Blumen is an illustrator. Based in Strasbourg, her book La vérité sur les fantômes has just been published in october 2020, by Éditions du Rouergue. Where do you come from and what is your background? I live and work in Strasbourg as a writer and[...]
For illustrator Ana Popescu who lives and works in Vienna, Austria, voids are the very protagonists of her story. “In my vision, empty spaces and their details tell a story. They leave a lot of room for the imagination. " In her compositions drawn with[...]
Articles’ illustrations, novel covers or personal experimentations, the illustrator Owen Gent, based in Bristol in the United Kingdom, creates images with dense storytelling. For his editorial projects commissioned by magazines, such as The New York Times, he illustrates the reality of sudden death experiences. For[...]
On the pages of a notebook, Amélie Vidgrain expresses, through blue monotypes, her relationship to life with which the supernatural sometimes mixes. Trained at the Oliver de Serres school (ENSAAM Paris) and the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (Akademia Sztuk Pieknych), this artist develops a[...]
Sandrine Thommen was born in 1986 in the Cevennes (French mountain chain). After a short period at the Estienne School in Paris, her feet leads her at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg where she graduated in 2010. Her many trips to Japan from[...]
