A 2015 graduate of the Typographic Design master’s program at ECV, Léa Maupetit is a young illustrator who lives and works in Paris.

Using gouache and acrylic, she creates a colorful, joyful and humorous universe where dogs, doves and elephants with glasses smile at life. Café terraces and markets resound with the echoes of precious moments, and the sun shines on nature and its fruits…

Léa exhibited at Artazart, “un printemps coloré” in 2018.

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.

After spending her childhood by the sea, Agathe Singer moved to Paris at the age of 17 to study graphic arts at Duperré and Penninghen. She developed a passion for gouache and found her inspiration in the paintings of Frida Kahlo, Matisse and the Douanier Rousseau. This illustrator, who lives a stone’s throw from the Eiffel Tower, depicts her daily life in scenes featuring cats, Parisian rooftops and plants.

Louise, aka Lavilleeetlesnuages, describes herself as an “optimistic illustrator”.

After 5 years of study at Penninghen and a diploma in her pocket, she embarked on the adventure of illustration to share her vision of the world, which she wants to be colorful and positive. A recent winner of the Prix Jeunes Talents des Agents Associés, Louise’s creations send out a strong message. An illustrator as well as an author, Lavilletlesnuages likes to work with all image and communication media, as well as all materials, since she has trained in embroidery and ceramics.

In her “City maps”, she embellishes the city map with emblematic monuments, cyclists, sightseeing points and little dogs, inviting you to travel from the comfort of your sofa.

Guillaume Denaud is an illustrator based near Nantes. After several years working in children’s ready-to-wear, he launched his own business under the pseudonym “Dans Les Dents” to develop a more personal universe: colorful, naïve and dreamlike. Strongly inspired by music and pop culture, his work attempts to instill a quirky, optimistic touch in the subjects he deals with.

Cément Thoby is just 29 years old, yet he’s already a virtuoso with grease pencil, colored pencil and oil pastel…

After studying animation at EMCA in Angoulême, he went on to work on major animation productions, but above all enjoys immortalizing the landscapes and wild compositions he discovers on his travels.

Fascinated by the light, shadows and textures of trees, he initially follows in his own footsteps, even though Félix Valloton and the Japanese Kazuo Oga, DA of Studio Ghibli films, inspire him in his art.

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

After working as an art director in advertising and then in an interior design agency, Agnès Hostache is now, to our great delight, a full-time illustrator. Using gouache or acrylic, she likes to transcribe the little things of everyday life, those scenes made up of minute details that we might otherwise have missed, but which really tell the story of our lives…

Trained in the applied arts, it is certainly her training in interior architecture that has given her a taste for telling the story of interiors and the lives of their inhabitants. Close to the “Mingei udo” movement (a popular Japanese art movement of the 1920s-1930s), she exhibited “Portraits d’illustres inconnus et autres petits riens” at Artazart in late 2018. Her first graphic novel, “Nagasaki”, adapted from the French novel (by Eric Faye), is a miracle of delicate sobriety. It won a prize at the 47th Angoulême Festival.

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

Color is paramount for Clara, and traditional tools such as oil paint and pastels allow her to express herself fully.

Bastien Figuié aka UNIKO, is a young art director trained in design in the south of France, with a passion for minimalist branding, beautiful lettering and clean shapes. After working for various Parisian communications agencies in the luxury and corporate sectors, it was only natural for him to broaden his field of action and take the plunge… to present his illustrations. Minimalist, joyful, sometimes abstract, sometimes typographic, Bastien’s work is characterized by bold, assertive colors and the energy that emanates from them. Bastien Figuié now works as a freelance art director.

Created in 2016 by Diane Marissal and Jérémie Leblanc, Les Canailles is a duo where the literary and artistic influences of one blend with the visual and graphic culture of the other. Whether illustrating, silkscreening or editing, collage is at the heart of their four-handed practice.

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

A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts in London and the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, illustrator Antoine Corbineau is often featured on the front page of Libé, the New York Times and Télérama.

With his eye for detail, his sense of humor and his colorful universe, you may have noticed him…
His world, that of spatial representation, can be found in his books: “Séries TV : le grand jeu” and “Les villes du monde” published by Milan. In 2018, he exhibited “Villes & Séries” on the banks of the canal…

Gaspard de Lalune was born in Bordeaux in 1876. He began his career as an artist in 1898, and is said to have participated in the DADA movement before the Surrealist discord. An author and thinker, he used puns and deliberately absurd approximations to escape the gravity of life. Combining engravings and typography, his ambition was to revolutionize the way society thought at the time. He panache with poetry, potty humor and incandescent aesthetics. Often with his head in the moon and eyebrow raised, he nevertheless keeps his feet on the ground, loves croissants and says “chocolatine”.
He’s a man who fights for the best and for laughter. Not a drunken alcoholic, he enjoys the passing of time like an epicurean, desperately seeking meaning in life, knowing full well that life has no meaning…

Artazart exhibited “Les Pieds sur Terre” in 2018.

A renowned 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 received 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 exhibited widely in France, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Switzerland and the Netherlands. His paintings can be seen at the Musée de l’Illustration in Moulins and the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris.
His exhibition in early 2020 at the Belvedere Museum in the Netherlands was a great success.

L’Imagier du vivant, his latest work, was published by Seuil Jeunesse. His next album, “Les deux géants”, will be published in October 2021 by HongFei.

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

Camille de Cussac is a graduate of the Ecole de Condé in Paris, and is represented by Slow Agence. She has published a number of children’s books, including the famous “KO à Cuba”, published by Thierry Magnier.

With a palette that’s out of the ordinary and always full of humor, she tells funny, poetic stories. Her passion for the unknown takes us far afield, through her amused and tenderized view of the zaniness of her contemporaries here and abroad. You could discover her on the banks of the Canal Saint Martin in January 2020.