Éditions Artazart

Séverine Assous is an illustrator who lives and works in Paris. A graduate in engraving from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she worked for many years as an art director in advertising agencies. Today, she devotes herself to illustration and motion design, working for the press, children’s publishing and advertising. Her illustrations are characterized by a minimalist approach, with stylized figures and exaggerated proportions. With pop colors applied in broad strokes, her style is joyful and bold.

After several years as an art director, Sophia Babari embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in 2015 and now works for a variety of media (publishing, press, visual identity, artwork, packaging). She has also created several imposing frescoes in France (for the Siseng restaurants on the banks of the Canal Saint Martin in Paris, La Grande Marée in Dunkirk) and internationally (in Baja California, Mexico). Using only ink on paper, Sophia Babari’s practice combines the delicacy of pointillism with the sure gesture of line. Her illustrations, teeming with detail, plunge us straight into a fantastic universe.

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.

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 chose to devote herself solely to illustration when she arrived in Europe. Playing with pencils and paint, she has also created a unique Parisian space dedicated 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: outings to cafés, strolls through museums and strolls past bakeries and florists.

A self-taught artist, Virginie Cognet began her career as a fashion stylist, then as an art director, before moving into illustration and gouache painting. She has built up an easily recognizable artistic identity and regularly collaborates with publishers. Her colorful, poetic style is imbued with a naive lightness. Her illustrations are inspired by the simple things in her daily life: plants, cats, flowers and books… Her paintings, imbued with freedom, are meant to be a remedy against melancholy. She exhibited at Artazart in spring 2022.

A graduate of ECV Paris, Cosmo Danchin-Hamard is a young illustrator who lives and works in Le Havre. Her graphic universe, both pop and retro, oscillates between the ligne claire of comics, 50s drawing and Pre-Raphaelite influences. Featuring women in particular, his illustrations always tell a story, nourished by a thousand funny, colorful details and often complemented by a comic-book bubble with a sarcastic commentary. Cosmo’s work shows an overflowing, quirky and unique imagination. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” (Oscar Wilde) is her favorite quote, and she embodies it to perfection.

Guillaume Denaud is an illustrator from Nantes, France, known by his provocative pseudonym “Dans les dents”. After several years working in children’s ready-to-wear, he set out on his own to develop a more personal universe: colorful, naïve and dreamlike. Created in gouache, felt-tip pen or digital, his illustrations are strongly inspired by music and pop culture. His work attempts to instill a quirky, optimistic touch into the subjects he deals with. In 2024, he exhibited his work at Artazart with the “It’s all good” exhibition.

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

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

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 morning coffee to repeated laundry and the irresistible urge to stay in bed, all with a healthy dose of humor and guilt relief. Her minimalist, hard-hitting illustrations are a real remedy for the weariness of everyday life.

Also known by the pseudonym Bamboulino, Manon Diemer is an artist and illustrator based in La Rochelle. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de 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 imbued with 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.

With a degree in graphic design, Camille Dubois is a young illustrator living and working in Normandy. Her illustrations, produced in a color 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 favorite films (Léon, Princesse Mononoké, Star Wars…) or portraying icons (Dalida, Daft Punk), her retro, colorful universe, representative of the style of the era, immediately lights up an interior.

Specializing in children’s illustration, Fanny Ducassé lives and works in Paris. After a degree in modern literature, she spent two years at the Chambre syndicale de la couture studying fashion, where she developed an attraction for illustration and the world of childhood. 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 testifying to long and painstaking work. Her fine black felt-tip illustrations, colored with Promarker, are as precise and full of detail as the work of a seamstress. Each of her illustrations draws us into a dreamlike, poetic and tender universe.