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.

Emilie Vast is an illustrator, author and visual artist who studied art and photography at the ESAD in Reims. In her work, she plays with pure lines, solid colour and contrast. Inspired by the graphic arts of the past and a lover of nature, she depicts plants and animals as characters who tell their own stories in stylised, gentle and poetic illustrations.

A graduate of the Ecole Pivaut in illustration and 2D animation, Mariana David is a children’s illustrator who lives and works in Dijon. While she loves to play with traditional techniques (watercolour, gouache, linocut, etc.), she also enjoys digital creation. Her gentle, poetic world is inspired by nature and the world’s cultural riches, always with a fantastical twist where dragons burst into flames, cats dance and young women ride birds.

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.

After a degree in Fine Arts, Marine Coutroutsios worked as a sculptor, interior architect and paper designer. In 2017, after several years in Australia where the exoticism of nature rekindled her bond with living things, she settled near the mountains in Grenoble and began her illustration business. In a delicate, dreamlike style, she creates mysterious, bewitching atmospheres and populates her images with vegetation and animals. Today, she regularly illustrates for the press and children’s publishing.

After studying at Auguste Renoir and Olivier de Serre, training as a jeweller and a spell in Haute Couture, Lil Sire turned to illustration. Working mainly in gouache, she draws her inspiration from a variety of artistic currents, such as art nouveau and Japanese prints. Her dreamlike, colourful world takes viewers into a poetic imagination, populated by animals of all kinds, where nature reigns supreme.

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.

Author and illustrator Charlotte Lemaire studied graphic design in Toulouse and illustration in Brussels, Vinius and Ghent. Today, she creates images for the press, publishing and theatre, and specialises in children’s illustration. She writes and paints albums(L’omelette aux myrtilles, La maison-ski…) that recount funny encounters and expeditions into the unknown. She is interested in vast landscapes and small interiors, in the secret passages between the immense and the minuscule.

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.

After growing up in Switzerland in the heart of the mountains and forests, Fanny Dreyer moved to Brussels to study illustration. Now an illustrator, she divides her time between children’s books, illustrations for the press and the cultural sector, and the Cuistax illustrators’ collective, of which she is a founding member. In her images, which oscillate between realism and naivety, she uses mixed techniques, switching between felt-tip pens, pencils and acrylics, playing with cut-outs and collages. Unencumbered by a single graphic style, she offers a multiple universe in which landscapes, folklore and children play a singular role.

A 2016 graduate of the Émile Cohl school, Lola Penicaud is an artist from Lyon who divides her time between illustration and animated film. She has also set up an association in the Jura region of France, where she runs cultural and artistic initiatives for disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Her drawings, with their fine lines and soft colours, are inhabited by characters who are always on the move. Somewhere between poetry and absurdity, her world is fuelled by stories about society and the people she meets.

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).

Vassilis Koutsogiannis is a Greek illustrator who lives and works in Athens. After studying architecture, he worked in Paris as an exhibition designer, but his passion for the visual arts caught up with him. He then turned to illustration. Since then, he has worked on a wide range of projects, specialising in children’s books. His illustrations plunge us into a colourful fantasy world, where magic and reality constantly interact.

Marion Livran, aka Maliv, is a self-taught illustrator and painter. She became passionate about linocut in 2018, then trained in direct-cut engraving.

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 lives leave in it, on the surface and in depth.

Today, Marion juggles her creations with the painting and engraving workshops she runs for a wide range of people, including beginners, in her Établi studio in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

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.