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.

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.

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).

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!

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 Macaigne is a graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris. She currently lives and works in Marseille, drawing her inspiration as much from her artistic practices (theater, dance, clowning) as from her cultural influences – she has lived in Istanbul and Reunion Island. She regularly draws for the press (Revue XXI, Alternatives Économiques, Le Temps, Libération etc.) and is the author and illustrator of several books: L’hiver d’Isabelle and Les coiffeurs des étoiles (éditions MeMo), Changer d’air (éditions Les Fourmis Rouges), Un Drôle de Lundi (éditions Seuil jeunesse). Attached to evoking our relationship with others and the world around us, she writes and draws as a poet what surrounds her, as well as her inner world, in hypnotic, colorful images of striking beauty. You won’t be able to resist her madcap style and unbridled imagination!

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.

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.

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.

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).

Jürg Lindenberger works as a freelance illustrator. He also enjoys being outdoors with his family, surfing on wooden bellyboards, skating on tiny concrete bowls, making music and drinking tea.

A graduate of the Haute école des arts du Rhin, La Jeanette is an illustrator who lives in the heart of the Auvergne mountains. She works as much for the press and brands as for children’s publishing, drawing from a world full of poetry and gentleness. Halfway between dream and reality, she likes to draw dreamlike worlds full of colour.

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.

Lapin is a French artist living in Barcelona. He defines himself as a “mobile illustrator”, lugging his notebook and watercolors on the street, in bars, on the subway, from Texas to Shanghai. His medium of choice: old accounting ledgers found at flea markets. He has published some twenty facsimiles of his notebooks, including the famous “Paris, je t’aime”, which gave rise to an exhibition at Artazart in summer 2016.