Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the extraordinary Céli Lee, an artist who is building her own universe with unusual sensitivity towards nature, myth, and of course, graphite. –Interview by Heather McCalden Hello Céli! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I’m a London based multidisciplinary artist, working across the fields of drawing, s...
Ladies and gentlemen! Alexis Deacon’s musings on graphite, animals and meaning, and dancing… Alexis Deacon is a writer and illustrator of comics, picture books and children’s fiction. His books have twice been selected for The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award. In 2008 he was chosen by Booktrust as one of the ten best new illustrators of the last decade. Hi Alexis! Could you tell us a...
Pablo Auladell is a multi-award-winning artist from Alicante working primarily in comics and illustration. Elegant, lyrical and delicate yet strong and disconcerting, his images suggest a particular dialogue between the traditional and the contemporary. Hi Pablo. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I am a picture book illustrator and comic author. A beautiful, ridiculous profession so, it only m...
Ladies and Gentlemen! Presenting the curious creations of Céline Guichard’s “twisted psychology”… An interview with Céline Guichard by Heather McCalden. Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about your work. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? Hi, I am Céline Guichard, I make images. I have published several books and participated to many exhibition. I live a...
Bene Rohlmann is a Berlin based illustrator. His work has appeared in exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States, and his clients feature The New York Times, Converse, and Mercedes Benz amongst others. Hi Bene! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about your work. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? Hi, my name is Bene Rohlmann and I’m an illustrator and artists based in Berlin. Sin...
Joshua is an illustrator working in Folkestone, Kent. A recent graduate from UCA-Maidstone, drawing has always been a great passion of Joshua’s for as long as he can remember. Nothing gives him more pleasure than sitting down and immersing himself in a piece of work. Creating imagery with a range of different media that frequently include pencil and Photoshop, his personal work has a resonant, emotional quality...
Laura Cochón is an illustrator from Spain whose delicate graphite works inhabit the page with an intimate rhythm and poetry all their own. A lover of literary things and the book as object and form, Laura’s work and methodology provoke a beautiful sense of layered narratives and tactile possibilities. Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about your work. Could you tell us a bit about yourself an...
Drawing reference from the glacial nomadic landscapes of Northern Poland to the bustling city streets of Paris, illustrator Joanna Concejo’s background is a major inspiration to her. This results in graphite and colour pencil works that bloom and breathe with nature’s movements and human narratives. She contributed to Death and Resurrection with a twist on the Red Riding Hood fairytale. ~Interview by Ysabelle Cheung....
In illustrator and artist Page Tsou’s surreal kingdoms, the mechanical and the man-made feature heavily as juxtaposed subjects. Pair this concept with his background – Taiwan born and based with a London stint and an MA at the Royal College of Art – and you start to get a sense of the limitlessness of his drawings. His 2010 London project The And focused on the hairs of society and featured drawings of th...
Interview by Vicky Woo Claudia Piras is 27 years old and drew her first doodle in Cala Gonone, Sardinia. She is currently living in Urbino, where she finished her studies at PERF in animation and cartoons last summer. Claudia is one of the ten young cartoonists behind the recently released GAP zine. Hi Claudia! It’s wonderful to have this opportunity to talk to you about your art! Your work often features portr...
