A graduate of EMCA, Paul Duru is now an animated film director and set designer. Fascinated from an early age by the representation of Paris, the city in which he grew up, he naturally turned his artistic work and illustrations towards landscapes. The contrast between city and nature, urbanism and urban wildlife has become his favourite subject. It’s a subject that he never ceases to meticulously put down on paper, using warm colours in vibrant light, true to the world around him.

A French graphic designer and illustrator, Elisabeth Fernandes lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2021, she created the Bez brand, which combines colour, femininity, commitment, quirkiness, impertinence and astonishment. Her illustrative work is as decorative as it is humorous. Her favourite subjects? Women and food, which she likes to combine in strange, offbeat representations.

Claire Goudeau is a French illustrator and painter who graduated in Printed Image in 2022 from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris and in Design from ENS Paris-Saclay. Her dual studies gave her a taste of the pleasures of the printed image, as she learned printing techniques such as engraving, screen printing and risography, and introduced her to the world of contemporary publishing. Gradually leaving design to one side, she found that illustration and the creation of printed images offered incredible narrative potential, rich in meaning. Inspired by the colours and patterns of her childhood in the Pacific, she illustrates her memories, faithfully transcribing or modelling reality according to her imagination.

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 decided to devote herself exclusively to illustration when she arrived in Europe. Playing with pencils and paint, she has also created a unique Parisian space devoted 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: going out for coffee, strolling through museums and passing by bakeries and florists.

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.

Originally from south-west France, Céline Dumartin is an illustrator and art director who lives and works in Paris. A graduate of ENSAMAA in object design, she has developed a naive and colourful universe that immediately puts you in a good mood. She loves animals, laughter, memories, children, colours, good food, dogs, sunshine and holidays. All this influences her illustrations, which she uses in prints, frescoes of pretty objects and embroidered clothes.

Ophélie Lhuire has a master’s degree in graphic practice and scientific complexity from Erg, and is an illustrator living in Brussels. She is a member of Atelier Tonpiquant. Fascinated by didactic and naturalistic drawings, she enjoys crossing the themes of art and science, oscillating between botany, the animal kingdom and the human body. Her illustrations explore with precision the structures and inner wonders of living things. Halfway between ancient engravings and modern tattooing, Ophélie mischievously plunges us into an organic world of rare meticulousness and infectious poetry.

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.

Trained as a graphic designer, Monna Graph is a self-taught illustrator. Passionate about typography, she draws her inspiration from the Victorian period, Art Nouveau and the Decorative Arts. With her graphic tablet, she creates an inverted universe where everyday life is adorned with absurdity, humour, exceptionality and strangeness. In a surrealist approach, she constructs a parallel cosmos where fish soar through the air and birds sink beneath the waves, questioning the boundaries between freedom and captivity.

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 designers, craftswomen and artists.

A graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Wendy Sylvain is a French illustrator who lives and works in Paris. In her illustrations, with their clean lines, Wendy Sylvain creates a language all her own, based on an omnipresent narrative in both written and visual form. She draws her inspiration from her interest in writing, as well as from the Japanese culture she has been interested in since childhood. With humour and seriousness, navigating between a raw reality and a mischievous imagination, she questions questions of identity and relationships in her illustrations.

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.

Fashion victim and illustrator Natacha Paschal finds her inspiration in fashion magazines and advertisements. She reinterprets them with exaggerated expressions, brightly coloured eyeshadow, luscious mouths and carnivorous teeth… Her works are a form of response to the dominant culture and offer us a humorous commentary on today’s society.

Lucile is a 26-year-old French illustrator from the Guérande peninsula. Fascinated by the power of images since childhood, she began her artistic career in Berlin in 2019. She now works from her studio in Paris, occasionally slipping away to visit the Atlantic Ocean. Using bright yet soft colours and rounded shapes, Lucile aims to convey a message of optimism, make people smile, brighten up a day and draw attention to the importance of giving to each other and to nature. Her creative techniques range from digital design to acrylic paint and ink drawings. When it comes to printing, she prefers to use traditional, environmentally-friendly techniques (risography, screen printing, linocut).