Like many children who grew up in the countryside, Niels Stoltenborg was amazed by plants, an inexhaustible source of fascination and surprise. He remembers telling his grandmother that he wanted to become a gardener.

He did not become a gardener. He studied photography, graphic design and drawing. As a freelancer, he was a photography and production assistant. In the 90s, he set up a studio in Istanbul for advertising and magazines. Today, he devotes himself entirely to his artistic and photographic creation.

In Vegetalism, Niels Stoltenborg's childlike fascination with the earth emerges again. His work starts from an intuition: the colors and shapes of fruits and vegetables have both a potential for abstraction and something to tell us.

Marion Livran is a Parisian artist. Initially trained in engraving, she fell in love with linocut, which she has been practicing for the past 5 years.

Very sensitive to the body, to what it gives to see, to touch, to feel, to its movements, its density, its composition... she tries to capture the fragility of this envelope and the trace that our emotions, our lives leave in it, on the surface and in depth.

It is these moments of epiphanies that fascinate her, these waves that break in us and make us come alive.

"I like to be interested in the invisible, in what sets in motion or what freezes. The body has answers even before they reach our consciousness (if we know how to listen to it). It is these moments of epiphanies that fascinate me, these waves that surge through us and make us alive.

Bastien Figuié aka UNIKO, is a young art director trained in design in the south of France, in love with minimalist branding, beautiful letters and pure forms. After having worked in various Parisian communication agencies in the luxury and corporate sectors, it is quite natural that he wished to widen his field of action and take the plunge... to finally present his illustrations. Minimalist, joyful, sometimes abstract or sometimes typographic, Bastien's work keeps as a red thread the frank and assumed colours and the energy that comes out. Bastien Figuié works today as a freelance art director.

Originally from California, Benjamin Schwartz has been living in Paris since 2018.
A multi-disciplinary artist, he has worked in film, photography, but also in fashion as a designer and self-taught shoemaker.

His latest series on the breads of various Parisian bakeries, done in pastels, explores our link with this essential food of the French diet; its history, its craft.

Benjamin Schwartz also hopes to partner and collaborate with international social justice organisations that focus on food waste and access to quality food on projects that blend humanitarianism and art.

Lucile is a 26-year-old French illustrator from the Guérande peninsula. Fascinated by the power of images since her childhood, she started her artistic career in Berlin in 2019. She now works from her studio in Paris and sometimes slips away to visit the Atlantic Ocean.

Through bright and soft colours and rounded shapes, Lucile wishes to convey a message of optimism, to make people smile, to brighten up a day and to draw attention to the importance of others and of nature.

Her creative techniques range from digital design to acrylic painting and ink drawing. As far as printing is concerned, she prefers to use traditional and ecological techniques (risography, silk-screen printing, linocut).

Victoire Orth is a young French photographer from Lyon living in Paris. Passionate about photography for several years, it was during a trip to Brussels that she met Gil Rigoulet and became his assistant. A collaboration that turned into a beautiful story of friendship and that today leads Gil to sponsor his assistant in order to make her work better known.

"Met by chance in life, a glance, words, in a draught of the main square of Brussels, Victoire, as long as the eye, the film camera on her hip, the fresh eye of these 18 years old does not care about the meanders of a questioning. She poses to herself, looks into her sensitivity and explores this natural light that brushes against the skin like an intensity of having to live, her world is her proximity, her look is her consciousness of building between graphics and emotion. She is hungry for demands and goes fast...
Victoire has been assisting me for 8 months, a joy! "

Gil Rigoulet

A well-known painter and illustrator, Martin Jarrie works for the press and publishing industry, in France and abroad. In 1997 he won the Grand Prize at the International Illustration Biennial in Bratislava and two special mentions at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2010 for Hyacinthe et Rose (ed.Thierry Magnier) and in 2012 for Rêveur de cartes (ed.Gallimard Giboulées). He has been exhibited many times in France, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Switzerland and the Netherlands. His paintings can be seen at the Museum of Illustration in Moulins and the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris.
His exhibition at the beginning of 2020 at the Belvedere Museum in the Netherlands was a great success.

L'Imagier du vivant, his latest book, was published by Seuil Jeunesse. His next book "Les deux géants" will be published in October 2021 by HongFei.

He is represented in Paris by Arsenic Galerie, rue Guénégaud and by the Adorable Art & Design Gallery in The Hague.

Clara Debray is a young French author and illustrator. She grew up in a small village of Chartreuse in the Alps and moved to Paris for her studies. After graduating in textile design in 2016 at the Duperré school, she joined the Paris School of Decorative Arts from which she graduated in 2020.

The sense of belonging to the environment in which she grew up has never left her. She now lives in Annecy and devotes much of her illustration work to conveying her personal feeling for the mountains. She likes to draw landscapes and faces that tell stories.

Colours are important to Clara, and traditional tools such as oil paint and pastels allow her to express herself fully.

Created in 2016 by Diane Marissal and Jérémie Leblanc, Les Canailles is a duo where the literary and artistic influences of one mix with the visual and graphic culture of the other. Whether it's illustrations, silkscreens or publishing, collage is at the heart of their four-handed practice.

"Our plastic universe, at the crossroads of these fields, mixes popular culture, graphic design and abstraction to explore the narrative and poetic character of images. Faced with an ambient pessimism, we want to reinstate a relationship of curiosity, fiction and dialogue with everyone, young and old.

Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert studied photography and film. He made a few films as a director of photography for Flemish television before turning to colour photography in his adopted Paris in the early 1960s, and then travelling from the late 1970s to the present day, bringing back incredible images from his various travels (Morocco, Egypt, the United States, India, etc.).

In 1982, he joined Magnum Photos. He likes to work in different environments, with contrasting lights and colours. He lives in Paris and is represented by Gallery 51 in Antwerp.

Cément Thoby is only 29 years old and yet he is already a virtuoso of grease pencil, coloured pencil and oil pastel...

After studying animation at the EMCA in Angoulême, he worked on large animation productions, but above all he likes to immortalise the landscapes and wild compositions that he discovers during his travels.

Fascinated by the light, shadows and textures of trees, he first followed his own steps, even though Félix Valloton and the Japanese artist Kazuo Oga, DA of the Studio Ghibli films, inspired him in his art.

With his striking colours, which are closer to impressionist painting than to illustration, he likes to create a path to the unknown, a mysterious, peaceful and timeless atmosphere that makes you want to go there.

Sophie Brice is passionate about typography, paper and travel. In 2015, she discovered Amsterdam and its unique architecture. But where many are captivated by the colourful facades, she sees the intertwining lines. Fascinated by the symmetry of the buildings, she drew her first silk-screen print.

From then on, each journey will be the subject of a graphic interpretation reflecting a keen sense of observation. Everything is meticulously designed to fit together and reflect the essence of the city or country illustrated.