Piment Martin

Behind Piment martin is Marion BEGUE, graphic designer and illustrator.

She has big green eyes and an indomitable mane. Her main subjects: objects; plants and that little totem woman who looks just like her. Marion moves from still life to vivid illustrations where she highlights women and their bodies as an ode to femininity. Above all, she loves mundane scenes that we forget to look at, like a vase on a table, and in her illustrations she depicts the little theaters and details of everyday life, their poetic and humorous sides.

Her illustrations are inspired by her many plants, flea markets full of eccentric objects and lucky finds, and the travels she has made.

Elsa Martino

Elsa Martino is a French artist and muralist, currently living and working in Paris.

Using her signature soft yet vibrant colors, she expresses herself by illustrating characters with attitudes marked by the 80s and 90s. She draws her inspiration from the fashion magazines of those eras. She creates both digitally and in painting, and often explores new media, large format being her favorite playground.

In her work, she’s not really concerned with details, but rather with the curves she transcribes in flat tints. Above all, she is interested in exaggeration, postures and framing.

Jeanne Macaigne

Jeanne Macaigne is a graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris. She currently lives and works in Marseille, drawing her inspiration as much from her artistic practices (theater, dance, clowning) as from her cultural influences – she has lived in Istanbul and Reunion Island.

She regularly draws for the press (Revue XXI, Alternatives Économiques, Le Temps, Libération etc.) and is the author and illustrator of several books: L’hiver d’Isabelle and Les coiffeurs des étoiles (éditions MeMo), Changer d’air (éditions Les Fourmis Rouges), Un Drôle de Lundi (éditions Seuil jeunesse).

Attached to evoking our relationship with others and the world around us, she writes and draws as a poet what surrounds her, as well as her inner world, in hypnotic, colorful images of striking beauty. You won’t be able to resist her madcap style and unbridled imagination!

Clémence Monnet

Clémence Monnet, a graduate of ESAD Orléans, 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-Laurenci, Apollinaire and Sempé are palpable.

Her highly poetic work in Indian ink and watercolor has already been published many times. “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.

Lapin

Lapin is a French artist living in Barcelona. He defines himself as a “mobile illustrator”, lugging his notebook and watercolors on the street, in bars, on the subway, from Texas to Shanghai. His medium of choice: old accounting ledgers found at flea markets.

He has published some twenty facsimiles of his notebooks, including the famous “Paris, je t’aime”, which gave rise to an exhibition at Artazart in summer 2016.

Natacha Paschal

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 Chanteloup

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).

Lucile Chanteloup

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.

Through bright yet soft colors 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 caring for others and nature.

Her creative techniques range from digital design to acrylic painting and ink drawing. When it comes to printing, she prefers artisanal and ecological techniques (risography, silkscreen, linocut).