Artazart Edition

After studying graphic design in Bordeaux, Gabrielle Monceaux became an illustrator and visual artist alongside her work as an art director. Drawing on her many expatriate experiences abroad, in Australia, England and the Netherlands, her inspiration is rooted in nature and the symbolism of certain objects and animals. A militant artist, she anchors her work in intersectional feminist and environmental struggles in the hope of changing hearts and minds with her sharpest weapon: her pencils. In the spring of 2023, she founded Les Mains Rebelles, a shared workshop in Bordeaux for designers, craftswomen and artists.

Originally from Belgium, Giselle Dekel now lives and works in Israel. After studying textile design, she fell in love with illustration. In her work, she depicts the daily lives of many women, from the morning coffee to the repeated washing and the irresistible urge to stay in bed, all with a good dose of humour and guilt relief. Her minimalist, hard-hitting illustrations are a real remedy for the weariness of everyday life.

Hubert Van Rie is a graduate of Arts Déco in Paris. He is an art director in the publishing industry and also works as an illustrator. He is the author of Les Bons Mots de l’Histoire (Robert Laffont). In 2022, he followed the Presidential election and brought together his drawings and observations in Le Bon air de la Campagne (Presses de la Cité).

Iris Hatzfeld is a French artist and illustrator living in Paris. After a Master’s degree in Art History at the Sorbonne, she left the world of museums to devote herself to drawing, which she had been practising intensively in evening classes. She specialised in animation, then developed a unique, soft and vibrant illustration technique, using inks and coloured pencils in a realistic and spontaneous style. Her recent work distinguishes her as an outstanding portraitist. She works for the press, editorial projects and brands such as Hermès, Bulgari and Chanel…

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.

An illustrator based in the Nantes countryside, Johanne Licard first studied cinema before turning to drawing. Something of this remains in her images, which focus on moods and suspended moments: when the eyes close, the light changes, the shadows lengthen… She seeks to create warm, evocative illustrations that encourage us to take a step aside.

Her sources of inspiration are nature, bodies, sensuality, and also the vintage aesthetic of the 1960s and 1970s.

She also works freelance for the press, publishing and advertising.

A graduate in illustration from the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Julie Guillem is an illustrator who lives and works in Paris. She now works regularly for the press and publishing houses. Using a range of techniques including linocut, ink and watercolour, she enjoys playing with colour, graphic simplicity and poetry. From hot-air balloon rides to majestic bird flights, her illustrations are an invitation to travel and contemplate.

Trained as a journalist, Alice Vandenbroucke aka La Mona Loca became an illustrator following a solo trip to Mexico in 2020, where she discovered the technique of engraving. That same year, working with the Ton Piquant collective and workshop in Brussels, she broadened her knowledge of a range of traditional printing techniques, from linocuts and aquatints to risography and monotype. Passionate about colours and textures, she likes to illustrate her experiences in a gentle and poetic way.

Lili Scratchy (pseudonym Frédérique Bellier) is a writer and illustrator of children’s books from Orléans. A graduate of the École de communication visuelle (ECV), she has gone on to work in a wide variety of professional fields: textile graphics, illustration for publishing, the press, stationery, board games and ceramics. Lili Scratchy’s main sources of inspiration are art brut, Japanese design and manga. She evolves in a naïve, cartoonish world seen through the prism of adult reflections. Her pop universe, ultra-colourful, optimistic and teeming with detail, doesn’t stop at paper. She applies this touch of explosive fantasy to a wide range of everyday objects and fabrics, as well as to her ceramic work, which plays an important role in her work.

An artist with a sparkling imagination, Limistic (whose real name is Noémie Hay) initially studied graphic design and art direction in Paris before following her passion for illustration. She explores a variety of media and is keen to apply her creativity to different techniques such as painting and ceramics, although digital art remains her medium of choice. Her joyful world of vibrant colours is mainly inspired by nature and the wonder of everyday life; it contains an element of carefree spirit and poetic reverie, and remains deliberately positive. She transforms moments from her life and her outings into rich scenes featuring flower-filled landscapes and still lifes, in which objects sit alongside fruit and other delicacies in delightful patchworks.

Trained as an architect, Lucie Delasrocas decided to devote herself entirely to her art. Passionate about her art, she continues to create in her adopted Drôme region: illustration, 3D, gouache, screen printing… all techniques with which she enjoys experimenting. In her illustrations, with their minimalist graphic style, she uses geometric shapes and bright colours to create infinite possibilities. Her inspiration? She finds it in current events and in what she sees in everyday life: landscapes, everyday scenes, women…

Lucile Piketty is a printmaker and illustrator who lives and works in Paris, having graduated from the École Estienne and the Arts Décoratifs de Paris after a spell at Parsons (New York). Winner of the 2016 Lacourière engraving prize, she has illustrated several books (Éditions De La Martinière, Seuil, Thierry Magnier) and works regularly with the press and museums (Musée du Louvre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle). Her pastel illustrations for Editions Artazart take you on a dreamlike journey through gardens.

Maguelone is an illustrator and graduate of the École Estienne ESAIG in Paris. After spending time at the Atelier de Sèvres, she now lives and works in Provence in the Luberon region. She creates illustrations using ink, gouache, pencil and pastels. Her colours are vivid, not always realistic, but always with a fine attention to detail.

Also known by the pseudonym Bamboulino, Manon Diemer is an artist and illustrator based in La Rochelle. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Lyon in graphic design, then of the Gobelins in Paris in motion design, she worked for four years in an agency before devoting herself entirely to illustration. Her drawing practice is rich in a multitude of tools and techniques, seeking to best adapt the subject to the medium. With a particular sense of framing derived from her photographic practice, she captures singular and representative elements of nature or architecture, inspired by the natural sciences, travel and ecological issues. She then articulates traces of reality in an imaginary world that is full of mystery and fantasy.

Margaux Dinam holds a DMA in illustration from École Estienne (Paris) and a master’s degree in Narration Spéculative from ERG (Brussels). She is an illustrator who is developing a practice combining comic strips, drawing and writing in her studio in the Paris suburbs. Her visual universe oscillates between abstraction and figuration, with particular attention paid to line and colour. Convinced of the political importance of the stories we tell, she is determined to create rich, sensitive fictions. Margaux draws her inspiration from the novels she reads, the films she likes to watch again and again, and the scientific imagery she collects.