Éditions Artazart

Antoine Meurant is an illustrator who lives and works in Paris. As a child, he liked to spread out his crayons on his bedroom table, and spend whole afternoons in front of a quarter-size grape. Later, he naturally opted for an image-related profession, graphic design, before turning to illustration. Since then, he has worked with communications agencies, publishers and institutions. Spending hours at his windowsill, he observes the street scene, and Paris soon becomes an important subject in his drawings. Passers-by in the streets, scenes of daily life, drawings of architecture and emblematic elements: the City of Light comes alive under his pencil, in a style reminiscent of Belgian comics.

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 women creators, artisans and artists.

A graduate of ESAD Orléans, Clémence Monnet lives and works just outside Paris. An illustrator for the publishing and press worlds, she is also developing a more personal body of work in which the inspirations of Marie Laurencin, Apollinaire and Sempé are palpable. Her highly poetic work in Indian ink and watercolor has already been published many times. Her album Hector et les bêtes sauvages, published by Seuil Jeunesse, has become a classic in children’s illustration. She exhibited at Artazart in winter 2019 as part of the “Nuits vagabondes” exhibition, in a duo with ceramist Elise Lefebvre.

Doriane Millet is a young French artist from Nancy. After studying applied arts in Paris, at the Olivier de Serres and Duperré schools, she joined the illustration department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. She now lives and works in Marseille, where her studio is located. Passionate about narrative images, her universe plays on the themes of fairy tale and fantasy, which she twists to create a dialogue between mythical characters (the mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood…) and the contemporary.

Yukiko Noritake was born in Aichi, Japan. A 2018 graduate of École de Condé, she began her career as an illustrator with the publication of her study subject (Voyage au pays des odeurs) by Actes Sud Junior. Her delicate, poetic acrylic work likes to illustrate views and landscapes in gentle evocations. She has been published many times in children’s illustration, notably by Actes Sud with the now-ubiquitous Forêt des frères (2020).

Marie Pellet is a French illustrator living in Paris. After 10 years as a layout artist in a press agency, she launched her career as a freelance illustrator in 2020. Using gouache, she paints women, animals and vegetation, as well as everyday objects, which she likes to make singular through the infinite variety of colors and composition. Marie Pellet claims a naïve, timeless style, a childlike look at everything that enables her to shed new light on everything that surrounds us.

Graduating in 2021 from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris in the “printed image” section, Caroline Péron is an illustrator and cartoonist. Living in Paris, she works mainly for press and publishing. In particular, she illustrated the comic strip À la recherche de Jeanne for Éditions Calmann-Lévy (2022). Her illustrations, done in colored pencil (her preferred technique), reflect her sensitivity to summer atmospheres, bright, tree-lined landscapes and bodies in motion.

Based in Lyon, Marion Bègue is better known under the pseudonym Piment Martin, a tribute to her parents’ Reunionese origins. Trained at Duperré, then Penninghen in art direction, she returned to painting and illustration during confinement. Working in gouache, she chooses bright colors, claiming a joyful illustration. Her favorite themes? Femininity, flowers and objects, which she likes to mix in her compositions.

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 regularly collaborates with the press and museums (Musée du Louvre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle). Her pastel illustrations for Editions Artazart take us on a dreamlike journey through gardens.

A Parisian illustrator, Marine de Quénetain was awakened to creativity, color and design at an early age by her parents. After graduating from ESAG Penninghen in 2009, she co-founded M2D2, a well-known graphic design studio in the publishing world. She then collaborated regularly with numerous magazines (Elle, Grazia, Gala…) and prestigious brands (Van Cleef, Hachette, LVMH), until she turned to painting in 2022. Today, she defines herself as a committed illustrator, connected to ecological and societal issues.

Olivier Ribbe is an illustrator and art teacher living in Lyon, France. Brimming with ideas, pencils and drawings, he has been working as an illustrator since 2000. Passionate about art, illustration and design, he works mainly digitally, but is equally at home with traditional techniques. When he’s not drawing, Olivier teaches illustration and graphic design to Masters students. His ideal day consists of walks in the forest and time spent drawing.

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. With vibrant colors, she illustrates her daily life and that of others, drawing inspiration from her memories and the anecdotes people tell her.

Author and illustrator of children’s books, Lili Scratchy (pseudonym Frédérique Bellier) hails from Orléans. A graduate of the École de communication visuelle (ECV), she went 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 universe seen through the prism of adult reflections. Her pop universe, ultra-colorful, optimistic and teeming with detail, doesn’t stop at paper. She applies this touch of explosive fantasy to many everyday objects and fabrics, as well as to her ceramic work, which plays an important role in her production.

Sheina Szlamka is a young illustrator and art director living and working in Paris. After training at the prestigious School of Visual Arts of New York and ESAG Penninghen in Paris, she devoted herself entirely to illustration and painting, with ink and acrylic as her preferred media. She works for fashion, press, advertising and culture, and has illustrated the books Audacieuses! and Guérisseuses d’hier et d’aujourd’hui for Éditions Eyrolles.

Paul Sirand is a Parisian art director and illustrator. After a master’s degree in advertising at ECV, he co-founded the creative studio “Le fruit studio” in 2013. He has a passion for love, dogs, uniforms and cooking – subjects that find their way into his work. Produced digitally, his illustrations often play with chiaroscuro in carefully crafted blue and red palettes.