After spending her entire 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 inspiration in the paintings of Frida Kahlo, Matisse and Le 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.“

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.

Elsa Martino is a French visual artist based in Paris. Her works, built around bold colours and pared-down compositions, offer an experience that is both visual and sensitive. In 2017, she graduated in graphic design from the École d’Arts Appliqués de Condé in Lyon.

Through her paintings, murals and textile works, she favours an approach that invites feelings rather than simple interpretation. Her interest in fashion and architecture feeds her exploration of line, pattern, structure and the body in space, enriching her approach to art.

She has collaborated on numerous projects including creations for Studio 13/16 at the Centre Pompidou, in situ works for Adidas, and a monumental fresco created at the Forum des Halles as part of the 4ᵉ edition of Art sous Canopée. She has also worked with the City of Paris on an advertising campaign and created murals for the French Institute in Singapore and India.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.