Children's collection

A graduate of the École Estienne in 2013 and the Arts Déco de Strasbourg in 2016, Adèle Verlinden is an author and illustrator who grew up in West Africa, then in a forest south of Paris. A lover of cats and trees from the cradle, her stories are steeped in nature, magic and strong-willed heroines. With her brightly coloured gouache palette, she has produced and published several children’s books, including Mojo cherche une cachette (Les Fourmis rouges). She is a firm believer in the power of fiction to change the world and, failing that, in the power of images to escape from everyday life.

After three years at the École Estienne, where she discovered and studied printmaking and engraving techniques, Alix took a year off to try her hand at various printing techniques, from etching to wallpaper. She then joined the Paris Print Club, where she further developed her engraving techniques and practised illustration while cultivating an interest in art history, music and literature. Her taste for drawing and colour combine to attempt to transcribe a universe where forms and a sensitivity to life intermingle, all tinged with a slight, unacknowledged obsession with mysticism.

Born in Lausanne, Anne Crausaz studied graphic design at ECAL in Switzerland. A graphic designer for 15 years, she finally turned to children’s illustration, guided by a deep desire to produce books for children. In 2007, she published Raymond rêve, which won the Prix Sorcières in 2009. She has since published around twenty books, mainly with MeMo. Her close observation of the world feeds her digital work, in which she creates a warm world, combining drawing and contemporary techniques.

Stylised characters, four or five colours, white backgrounds… Aurore Petit knows how to get to the heart of the matter in just a few strokes. Her images play with the most universal symbols to powerfully awaken the imagination. Aurore Petit graduated from the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts in 2006. She lives and works in Nantes.

Author and illustrator Charlotte Lemaire studied graphic design in Toulouse and illustration in Brussels, Vinius and Ghent. Today, she creates images for the press, publishing and theatre, and specialises in children’s illustration. She writes and paints albums(L’omelette aux myrtilles, La maison-ski…) that recount funny encounters and expeditions into the unknown. She is interested in vast landscapes and small interiors, in the secret passages between the immense and the minuscule.

Better known under the pseudonym Clara Super Duper, Clara Dupré is an illustrator and graphic designer who lives and works in Angoulême. A graduate of the Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués in Paris, her passion for illustration stems from her childhood in Dieppe, where she took drawing and painting classes. She finds her inspiration in the little things of everyday life: funny situations, people she meets in the street or random searches on the internet. Working digitally, her illustrations transform everyday life with curved shapes and a palette of pop colours.

Clémence Monnet, a graduate of ESAD Orléans, lives and works just outside Paris. An illustrator for the publishing and press worlds, she is also developing a more personal body of work in which the inspirations of Marie-Laurenci, Apollinaire and Sempé are palpable. Her highly poetic work in Indian ink and watercolor has already been published many times. “Hector et les bêtes sauvages”, published by Seuil Jeunesse, has become a classic in children’s illustration. She exhibited at Artazart in winter 2019 as part of the “Nuits vagabondes” exhibition, in a duo with ceramist Elise Lefebvre.

Emilie Vast is an illustrator, author and visual artist who studied art and photography at the ESAD in Reims. In her work, she plays with pure lines, solid colour and contrast. Inspired by the graphic arts of the past and a lover of nature, she depicts plants and animals as characters who tell their own stories in stylised, gentle and poetic illustrations.

After growing up in Switzerland in the heart of the mountains and forests, Fanny Dreyer moved to Brussels to study illustration. Now an illustrator, she divides her time between children’s books, illustrations for the press and the cultural sector, and the Cuistax illustrators’ collective, of which she is a founding member. In her images, which oscillate between realism and naivety, she uses mixed techniques, switching between felt-tip pens, pencils and acrylics, playing with cut-outs and collages. Unencumbered by a single graphic style, she offers a multiple universe in which landscapes, folklore and children play a singular role.

Specialising in illustration for young people, Fanny Ducassé lives and works in Paris. After graduating with a degree in modern literature, she spent two years studying fashion at the Chambre syndicale de la couture, where she developed an interest in illustration and the world of children. In 2015, she published her first book: De la tarte au citron, du thé et des étoiles (Thierry Magnier). Since then, Fanny Ducassé has published several books, each one a testament to her long and painstaking work. Her fine black felt-tip illustrations, coloured with Promarker, are as precise and full of detail as the work of a seamstress. Each of her illustrations takes us into a dreamlike, poetic and tender world.

A recent graduate of the École Estienne, Gruumo is a non-binary visual artist who lives and works in Paris. Her work in illustration takes many forms: mainly paintings created with gouache, white stoneware ceramics decorated with engobe, but also engraving, bookbinding and textiles. Her cheerful, colourful and naive world is often populated by little frogs.

Irina Pavlova aka Iruksson is a Franco-Russian illustrator and graphic designer based in Paris. After seven years as a freelance graphic and motion designer, she began developing her interest in illustration in 2019. Her creations are characterised by a palette of bright colours, eccentric characters, imperfect shapes and amusing motifs. A fascination for wild animals, plants and nature, and warm atmospheres are all part of her joyful visual world!

Jeanne Saboureault is an illustrator based in Lyon, after several years in Brussels, where she was part of the Ton Piquant collective. With a Master’s degree in Visual Communication from the Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, she first worked as a graphic designer, then as a community manager before launching her own career as an illustrator. Using vibrant colours, she illustrates her everyday life and that of others, drawing inspiration from her memories and the anecdotes people tell her.

Julia Spiers is a French graphic designer and illustrator who lives and works in Paris. She has a degree in print design from the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. She works for the press, advertising and publishing. Trained in a wide range of techniques, she mainly uses gouache, watercolour and cut-out paper. Her world highlights nature, flowers and plants, without these necessarily corresponding to reality.

Originally from Nancy, Juliette Farges is a young illustrator and author. Since 2019, she has been living in Brussels, where she studied Visual Communication and Graphic Design at ENSAV- La Cambre. Her childlike, poetic world is expressed mainly in gouache, with a highly recognisable palette of deep shades of green, red and blue. She has published two albums, Monsieur cheval et ses amis (Versant Sud jeunesse) and Ici & petit poids (Maison CFC).