Artazart Edition

Originally from south-east France, Agathe Briot is an illustrator and art director who now lives in Rome, the city of her heart. After studying graphic arts in Marseille, she moved to Paris, where she worked as art director in a creative studio specializing in luxury goods for 10 years. Her graphic universe is influenced by the colors, landscapes and sunshine of the Mediterranean. Characterized by a colorful palette and clean lines, her illustrations are inspired by scenes from everyday life, featuring maritime pines, references to antiquity, cafés, vintage signs, wine glasses and stolen kisses.

Inspired by my native countryside and based in Paris since my studies at Arts Déco and Duperré, I love drawing flowers and generously laid tables, where poetry, colour and sharing come together. My relationship with gathering has nourished my practice: the bouquets I used to make as a child in the meadows have become my colourful palettes, while large family tables embody for me the joy of being together.

It is thanks to coloured pencils and pastels that I am able to translate these simple and colourful moments of everyday life.

Agnès Decourchelle is a Parisian artist and illustrator who spent her childhood in Africa, surrounded by bright colours and contrasting lights. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Royal College of Art in London, she draws for a wide range of clients in the press (Télérama, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, etc.), publishing (Gallimard Jeunesse, Penguin Books, Hachette, etc.) and visual communications (Les Restos du Cœur, BBC, Château Palmer, etc.). She is a specialist in using coloured pencils to draw nature, which is her main subject.

After working as an art director in advertising and then in an interior design agency, Agnès Hostache is now, to our great delight, a full-time illustrator. Using gouache or acrylic, she likes to transcribe the little things of everyday life, those scenes made up of minute details that we might otherwise have missed, but which really tell the story of our lives… Trained in the applied arts, it is certainly her training in interior architecture that has given her a taste for telling the story of interiors and the lives of their inhabitants. Close to the “Mingei udo” movement (a popular Japanese art movement of the 1920s-1930s), she exhibited “Portraits d’illustres inconnus et autres petits riens” at Artazart in late 2018. Her first graphic novel, “Nagasaki”, adapted from the French novel (by Eric Faye), is a miracle of delicate sobriety. It won a prize at the 47th Angoulême Festival.

Ambre Verschaeve is an illustrator and creative workshop facilitator in Paris. After graduating in visual communication from HEAD-Geneva in 2018, she has worked on various commissioned projects for brands and in the youth sector. She enjoys showcasing flora and fauna in landscape scenes and everyday life.

Her cheerful and colourful illustrations, created with coloured pencils, immerse us in a textured and gentle universe.

A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts in London and the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, illustrator Antoine Corbineau is often featured on the front page of Libé, the New York Times and Télérama. With his eye for detail, his sense of humor and his colorful universe, you may have noticed him… His world, that of spatial representation, can be found in his books: “Séries TV : le grand jeu” and “Les villes du monde” published by Milan. In 2018, he exhibited “Villes & Séries” on the banks of the canal…

Antoine Meurant is an illustrator who lives and works in Paris. As a child, he loved to spread out his coloured pencils on his bedroom table and spend whole afternoons in front of a quarter-sized grape. Later, he naturally chose a profession linked to images, graphic design, before turning to illustration. Since then, he has worked with communications agencies, publishers and institutions. Spending hours at a time on his windowsill, he observes the street scene and, very quickly, Paris becomes an important subject in his drawings. Passers-by in the streets, scenes from everyday life, drawings of architecture and landmarks: the City of Light comes alive under his pencil, in a style reminiscent of Belgian comics.

An illustrator from Nantes, Camille Deschiens has been drawing since childhood. She developed a particular passion for life drawing classes before enrolling at HEAR (Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin) in Strasbourg. In 2018, she graduated from the illustration workshop.

She developed a technique using coloured pencils, working mainly with flat colours, soft colour ranges and plays on transparency. Since her first love affair in her final year of secondary school, Camille has been studying couples, love, intimacy, everyday life and the little things in a life shared with another, day after day. Her first collection of drawings, Les Coutures, published by Four Eyes, recounts these moments in her love life.

Her work has been featured in the French and international press, and her drawings have been exhibited at various illustration fairs.

When Camille isn’t singing Véronique Sanson songs alone at her desk, she teaches life drawing to animation students at ECV.

All of which makes for a beautiful, sweet, joyful and fulfilling life.

With a degree in graphic design, Camille Dubois is a young illustrator who lives and works in Normandy. Her illustrations, produced in a colour palette directly inspired by the 80s, draw on her passion for architecture and pop culture. Whether she’s looking for original buildings to sketch, reproducing her favourite films (Léon, Princesse Mononoké, Star Wars…) or drawing portraits of her icons (Dalida, Daft Punk), her retro and colourful world, representative of the style of the time, immediately lights up any interior.

A graduate of EPSAA, Camille Gobourg lives and works in Lyon. Inspired by her dreams, she creates poetic worlds populated by animals and fantastical creatures.

Since 2021, she has been combining alcohol-based felt-tip pens and coloured pencils to bring texture and softness to her illustrations.

Her work has been published in Erratum and Kiblind. In 2022, she is participating in the creation of the first edition of Bourrage Papier, a Lyon-based festival of contemporary illustration and micro-publishing.

A graduate of Penninghen in art direction and the École de Communication Visuelle (ECV) in Paris, Capucine Mattiussi is an illustrator. Passionate about music, she began working for music labels, bands and bars at a very early age. Over time, her various freelance projects enabled her to create her own universe and refine her artistic style, straight out of the rock of the 60s and 70s. His Mediterranean origins also inspire his creations, which regularly feature sea water, the burning sun of his childhood and the green of Mediterranean palm trees. His inimitable style, made up of colours and curved shapes, will not leave you indifferent.

Carole Hillman is an illustrator and pattern designer. After living in England for 15 years, she has now returned to France, enriched by this dual cultural background. Her world is a vibrant interplay of colours and shapes, where patterns intertwine spontaneously. Inspired by her Polish family roots, she reinterprets folk influences, modernising them with sensitivity and poetry. Through her work, she creates lively, warm and deeply personal compositions, where tradition and modernity interact harmoniously.

Caroline Péron graduated in 2021 from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris in the “printed image” section, and is an illustrator and comic strip artist. She lives in Paris and works mainly for the press and publishing industry. She illustrated the comic strip À la recherche de Jeanne for Éditions Calmann-Lévy (2022). Her illustrations, done in coloured pencil (her preferred technique), reflect her sensitivity to summer atmospheres, bright landscapes with trees, and bodies in motion.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cel Castellá has been living in Paris since 2018. After studying communications and working in advertising for several years, she decided to devote herself exclusively to illustration when she arrived in Europe. Playing with pencils and paint, she has also created a unique Parisian space devoted to embroidery, her second passion. Although she finds it hard to get used to the cold of the French winter, she has managed to tame everyday Parisian life, which she loves to depict in her illustrations: going out for coffee, strolling through museums and passing by bakeries and florists.

Originally from south-west France, Céline Dumartin is an illustrator and art director who lives and works in Paris. A graduate of ENSAMAA in object design, she has developed a naive and colourful universe that immediately puts you in a good mood. She loves animals, laughter, memories, children, colours, good food, dogs, sunshine and holidays. All this influences her illustrations, which she uses in prints, frescoes of pretty objects and embroidered clothes.