I am an illustrator and digital artist based in France, inspired by botanical nature, landscape and portraits which, as static as they might appear at first sight, happen to provide a narrative and vivid imaginary world.
I love playing with colors and textures, transforming a drawing from a doodle book into a more accomplished work, exploring the back and forth between words and images – and making space for children’s creativity.
I create mixed, traditional and digital illustrations. My favorite process is to digitally apply sharply cut textures on my handmade drawings, while playing with layered transparencies. I am looking for an overall naive aspect, which in my opinion creates a poetic, childish atmosphere.
“Folk-art meeting with contemporary flat graphic (light texture), with sharp shapes and hand-drawn lines”
In recent years I have developed and deepened a passion for traditional and contemporary surface patterns, and I have dedicated myself to researching recent and historical methods of creating these patterns up to the point that I could create my first collection called“green cathedral ”
Today you can find (in my POD shop: Spoonflower and redbubble) some of my stylized seamless patterns to be printed on surfaces and fabric
I would talk about my style as a decorative one with a consistent stroke weight, hand-drawn line style, bold shapes with clean edges. The flat colors (with slight additional textures here and there), intentional minimal shading together with the sharp line work give my pattern designs a graphic clarity while maintaining the soul of a hand-painted piece,
I love the mid-century illustrative feel ! I dream of a classic sophisticated, yet playful, aesthetic where sharp line work would provide the touch of modern clarity.
I would say that the vibe rendered by my work is a kind of updated muralist tradition.
… As if a vintage-like illustration had been found in a curiosity cabinet then reinterpreted with a contemporary sensibility.
My work as a pattern designer evokes paper, plaster, or ceramic glaze because I draw my inspiration from decorative tile traditions, particularly mediterranean and Arts & Crafts aesthetics, blending folk botanical illustration with architectural ornamentation.
Prior to illustration:
I was first trained as a social worker. I worked in Child-Protection for 10 years, both in Lyon (France) and East-London (Newham). I also hold a Master’s degree in Anthropology (Lyon II university). At some point I found myself abroad: new culture, new language.
Since I had been drawing as a hobby ever since I could remember, I took the opportunity to make it more official and taught myself about everything I know by now about digital drawing.
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LUNO
I published my first children’s book as an illustrator. It is called “Luno”, a flutist in search of melodies. It is so far published in Israel only because the story was originally written in Hebrew. The author of the book is also a researcher at Jerusalem university. I should propose a french translation to a French editor.
