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[...]
The News Ghost is the first attempt by Londoner Robert Frank Hunter to write, but also to illustrate an entire story. After having designed images of The Jungle Book published by Quarto Press, The New Ghost confirms Robert Hunter as a master of color and[...]
Sabine Mirlesse is a Franco-American artist, whose photographic drawn and sculpted stories resonate with earth, geology, rituals and footprints. Her love for earth, whether seismic or volcanic, led her to work on two projects; the linguistic study of 3 Italian volcanoes and the book Pietra[...]
