Check out the magical world of, 

REBECCA SANTO

illustrator 

Living in Cleveland, OH

The works from her latest Book project 
“Where Shooting Stars Land”
are reminiscent of the imaginative vision of Chris Van Allsburg.
-E.L.

ABOUT 

Rebecca Santo is from Cleveland, Ohio & a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in Illustration. Aside from storytelling, She loves exploring new places, sketching in local cafes, and getting lost in my thoughts. She explains,"I am in love with all things old-fashioned; from fashion, to architecture, to any music more than 40 years old. As a proud daydreamer, my work often reflects anything from whimsical fairytales to capturing the beauty of simple everyday curiosities; whatever allows viewers to fall into the warmth of nostalgia or run free in their imaginations. My favorite method of storytelling, however, is finding the perfect way to visually blend the familiarity of reality and a world of fantasy into one. 

“Where Shooting Stars Land” is a series of ten microfiction stories. Every story is completed with one sentence of narrative, paired with one illustration. With this, the reader is left with enough information to establish a story, but is left with the question of “what happens next.” Each story contains either a person, place or things I have encountered in vivid recurring dreams I used to have throughout my childhood.

VISIT HER SITE 

https://www.rebeccasanto.com

INSTAGRAM

Here's few other projects below...

 

- YOU JUST SAW THE AWESOME WORKS OF 
REBECCA SANTO^^^ 
#WHACKED #JUICEY  

Check out the wild world illo of 

C H A M O

Illustrator 

Paris

ABOUT 

Chamo first studied textiles, then illustration at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris.  She then went to live a few years in Berlin, where she studied visual communication at the Kunsthochschule-Berlin Weissensee.  In 2005, back in Paris, she devoted herself to illustration, represented by the agency Illustrissimo. She produces album covers, theater or concert posters, flyers, and numerous illustrations for the French and international press (Magazines for youth at Bayard and Milan, Los Angeles Magazine, Glow, Nobrow, etc.).  She is also the author of children's books including "ABCD Signes" by Thierry Magnier and "Bon anniversaire Princesse" by Editions Gallimard Jeunesse.  In 2006, she founded L’Articho, an association dedicated to drawing and illustration which she directs with her accomplice Yassine. The idea is to create living events around the image: exhibitions, publications, evenings, market, meetings ... L'Articho notably publishes a biennial review "Les cahiers de L'Articho" (4 issues to date) .  Chamo has also recently started working as collection director for the children's publishing house "Les fourmis rouges", directed by Valérie Cussaguet. 

 

THANK YOU CHAMO for the beautiful works!

E.L. 

A visit to the shore

MAUREEN GALLACE 

Painter

b. 1960 Stamford CT

ABOUT 

Ms. Gallace is an artist who works within the self-imposed confines of a rigorously limited scale and subject matter. She is a painter of small, unpeopled landscapes in which a modest number of elements – a house, a barn, a boat; bushes, grass, sky – recur with a quietly mesmerising insistence. In focusing on a particularly favoured motif, the idealised form of a windowless white New England cottage, Gallace succeeds in isolating something universally familiar yet utterly mysterious. Though instantly recognisable as a work by Gallace, each individual painting is a unique rumination on stillness and structure. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut and her MFA from Rutgers University. 

Gallace has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York, 2017; La Conservera, Murcia, Spain, 2011; The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2004; Dallas Museum of Art, 2003; and Museum Schloss-Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany, 1996. Group shows in which she has participated include 'September 11', MoMA PS1, New York, 2011; Whitney Biennial 2010, New York; and 'Ideal Standard Life' at Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, 1996.

A visit with the #SWEETWORKS of, 

RAUL NIETO GURIDI

illustrator

Spain

ABOUT

Raúl Nieto Guridi was born in Seville, Spain, in 1970, the son of a draftsman and a painter, and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville. Early in his career he concentrated on painting and graphic design, but starting in 2010, he turned to illustrating children’s books, and has since written or provided illustrations for more than thirty books. Among the works he has illustrated available in English are The Day I Became a Bird, The Last Tree, and A Drop of the Sea by Ingrid Chabbert; Relaxations by Mamen Duch; and No Water No Bread by Luis Amavisca. Asked in 2010 about his dreams for the future, Guridi responded, “to illustrate all the stories I’d love to tell and to tell all the stories I’d love to illustrate, to be loving to those who light up my life day after day, and to be happy and to make them happy, which to my mind are one and the same.” The King of Nothing is the second book Guridi has both written and illustrated that has been translated into English.

- NYRB Book Review

 

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