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.

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.

Agathe Meunier is an illustrator and risographer from Strasbourg. After studying at the Haute école des arts du Rhin, she joined the riso Super Banco printing studio in Brest. Both an artist and a technician, she enjoys mastering every stage, from photography to printing. An experienced hiker, she finds her inspiration in the landscapes around her, on the customs paths of Brittany or in the mountains during her periods as a warden in a refuge in the Vanoise.

Agathe Meunier makes skilful use of the limited number of colours available in risography, erasing the details of her drawings to make room for the chromatic sensations that bring us peace and joy.

After spending her entire childhood by the sea, Agathe Singer moved to Paris at the age of 17 to study graphic arts at Duperré and Penninghen. She developed a passion for gouache and found inspiration in the paintings of Frida Kahlo, Matisse and Le Douanier Rousseau. This illustrator, who lives a stone’s throw from the Eiffel Tower, depicts her daily life in scenes featuring cats, Parisian rooftops and plants.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A state-certified architect from ENSA Paris La Villette, Axelle is also a graphic designer and illustrator. Her love of drawing led her to explore graphic representation in architecture, and to make it her profession, helping professionals communicate their projects. Her urban wanderings inspire her to transcribe what she sees onto paper. She then likes to play with colours and textures to emphasise a different interpretation, a reality that is often sugar-coated.

Her stories are peopled with shapes, words and textures that she collects as she experiments, to tell the story of her relationship with life with humour and poetry. Her images link dream and reality, creating a space of peace and contemplation, a tribute to the balance between strength and sensitivity. She creates this delicate landscape through a series of projects with the press, agencies and a variety of clients in France, Belgium and Switzerland.