Samuel Alonso
Graduated in Phylosophy and Education Sciences in the University of Salamanca. He did a Master in Publishing in the same university in collaboration with Santillana. He worked as a librarian in the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez in Salamanca. He is a writer, a critic and he is also specialized in children´s and young adults literature. In 2002, Edelvives published his first book, illustrated by Tino Gatagá. He has worked as literary adviser in editorials such as Anaya, Edelvives and SM, and he was Director of Publications in the publishing imprint “451 editores”. Currently, he is senior lecturer in the i con i Master in Children Picture Book.
Hanne Bartholin
Hanne Bartholin is a picture book artist. She was born in Denmark 1962, spent her youth in Sweden and has now been commuting between Denmark and England for twelve years.
In 1987 she finished a 5-year education as an illustrator and graphic designer at Design School Kolding. After that she practiced her drawing skills in newspapers and magazines before she decided to concentrate 100% on picture books for children and grownups.
She has illustrated around 40 books. She got her first book published in 1995, In the seventh Heaven written by Charlotte Sejer Pedersen. Since then she worked on solo projects and books with lovely writers. Some off her most famous works are Finn Herman written by Mats Letén, Axel Loves Cars with text by Marianne Iben Hansen and the series of Carl books written by Ida Jessen. They have been translated into foreign languages including Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Catalan and Swedish. Hanne Bartholin has received a number of prizes for her work including the Danish Minister of Culture award 2001. She has participated in exhibitions all over the world: In 2013 she exhibited in Seoul, Busan, Tallin and Nordiska Akvarell Museet in Sweden.
Since 1997 she has worked as a guest teacher and examiner in illustration at Design School Kolding and in later years mainly at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, in Copenhagen. She give talks and workshops for children and adults.
Edmond Baudoin
Edmond Baudoin was born in 1942 in Nice. After studying in the School of Decorative Arts in his teens, he worked as an accountant before returning to drawing in 1971. In 1992 and 1997 he won the Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for Best French Comic Book for Couma acò and for Best Scenario for The Journey (Astiberri, 2005) respectively. He was awarded with the prize for Best Album for Piero in the Sierre Festival in 1998. In Arlerí (Astiberri, 2009), the artist recalls all he knows about love, love feelings and physical love by means of a conversation between an old painter and his model.
After a meeting with Fred Vargas, an internationally recognized figure of Roman Noir, he produces the graphic novel The Four Rivers (Astiberru, 2009) and The Scourer Salesman, a permanent dialogue between the author and the illustrator where each of them contributes with the richness of its own mean of expression.
In Salad of Nice (Astiberri, 2010), Baudoin shows as he only knows the most intensive feelings of his characters, women’s beauty and his deep love for them. In Vive la vie (Astiberri, 2011) he conveys the Mexican Ciudad Juárez through the dreams of its residents
Giacomo Benelli
Giacomo Benelli is in charge of international relations of Mimaster Editorial Illustration. In the illustration world, he has coordinated the exhibition and curated the catalog of “Favorisca. Volti ritrovati di vagabondi e sanspapier dell’800” (Modena-Carpi-Sassuolo Festivalfilosofia 2006). He has coordinated and promoted “Cuochi Fatui” (Festivalfilosofia, A.I.-Associazione Illustratori, Sassuolo). Giacomo has also coordinated “PrEgo, siete venuti per me?”, an exhibition by Ivan Groznij Canu, Bologna 2008; and “Sunrise Hotel”, by Emiliano Ponzi, Rome 2012. Since 2009, he is in charge of Mimaster press office. Currently, he organizes cultural projects and manages the activities of ARSenale delle Arti association- laboratorio teatrale.
Paula Bonet
Vila-real, 1980. With a BA in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, she completed her education in Santiago of Chile, New York and Urbino. Initially she worked the techniques of oil painting and engraving, but since 2009 she focuses on illustration y from then on, she has worked on that field.
In 2013 she illustrates Léeme (Andana Publishing house) and the poetry book from Estel Solé Si uneixes tots els punts (Galerada Publishing house). Qué hacer cuando en la pantalla aparece The End is her first authorship book with text and illustrations (March 2014, Lunwerg Publishing house). In September 2014, she illustrates La pequeña Amelia se hace mayor, a pop-up album for children (Combel Publishing house). 813 is the second book she publishes both as the text and illustration author. It is an illustrated tribute to the French filmmaker François Truffaut and to a fragment of his filmography (La Galera, February 2015).
Her artwork has been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Pamplona, Oporto, Paris, London, Rome, Belgium, Urbino and Berlin.
Her work, filled with poetry, has plenty of ramifications, from press illustration (Diari Ara, Revista Kireei, Revista Calle 20, Ling, ESCAC, Caràcters, Le Cool), to scenography, poster design (The Black Keys, Vetusta Morla, Jacko Hooper, Christina Rosenvinge) or mural painting.
Anthony Browne
I was born in Sheffield and moved to a pub near Bradford when I was one. As I got older I apparently used to stand on a table in the bar and tell stories to customers about a character called Big Dumb Tackle (whoever he was). I spent much of my childhood playing sport, fighting and drawing with my older brother.
I went to a grammar school in Cleckheaton, then studied graphic design at art college in Leeds. My father died suddenly and horrifically in front of me while I was there and this had a huge effect on me. I went through a rather dark period which didn’t sit very happily with the world of graphic design. After leaving college I heard about a job as a medical artist and thought that it sounded interesting – it was. I worked at Manchester Royal Infirmary for 3 years painting delicate watercolours of grotesque operations. It taught me a lot more about drawing than I ever learned at art college, and I believe it taught me how to tell stories in pictures. I thought that it was probably time to move on when strange little figures started appearing in these paintings, and so I began a career designing greetings cards. I continued to do this for many years working for the Gordon Fraser Gallery.
Gordon Fraser became a close friend and taught me a lot about card design which was to prove very useful when I came to do children’s books. I experimented with many styles and many subjects from snowmen to dogs with big eyes to gorillas. I sent some of my designs to various children’s book publishers and it was through one of these that I met Julia MacRae who was to become my editor for the next 20 years. She taught me much of what I know about writing and illustrating children’s books.
In 1976 I produced Through the Magic Mirror, a strange kind of book in which I painted many of the pictures before I wrote the story. I followed this with A Walk in the Park, a story I was to revisit 20 years later with Voices in the Park.
Probably my most successful book is Gorilla, published in 1983, and it was during this period that I was badly bitten by a gorilla whilst being filmed for television at my local zoo.
I have published 48 books, and amongst the awards that my books have won are the Kate Greenaway medal twice, and the Kurt Maschler ‘Emil” three times. In 2000 I was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, an international award given to an illustrator for their body of work. This prize is the highest honour a children’s writer or illustrator can win and I was the first British illustrator to receive the award. My books are translated into 26 languages and my illustrations have been exhibited in many countries – U.S.A., Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, France, Korea, Italy, Germany, Holland, Japan, and Taiwan, and I’ve had the pleasure of visiting these places and working with local children and meeting other illustators.
In 2001-2002 I took a job as writer and illustrator at Tate Britain working with children using art as a stimulus to inspire visual literacy and creative writing activities. It was during this time that I conceived and produced The Shape Game The shape game.
In 2009 I became the new Children’s Laureate.
Irene Cantero
She has a BA in Scenography from the Royal School of Dramatic Arts and in Choreography from the María de Ávila Dance Conservatory, in Madrid.
She combines her work as stage designer and gaffer with her work as performer, teacher and choreographer in different kinds of projects.
She works mainly as gaffer, although she also does stage and wardrobe design. As gaffer, she works as the assistant of Juan Gómez-Cornejo in some of his projects and collaborates frequently with the choreographer Daniel Abreu. She has done lighting for other choreographers such as: Pedro Berdayes, Camille Hanson, Sharon Fridman, Claudia Faci…; and makes the technical coordination on tour for such performances; in the theatrical genre she has worked with directors such as Juan Carlos Corazza, Pepa Gamboa, Gustavo Tambascio, Francisco Vidal, Laura Ortega… and regarding to music she frequently works with the groups De la Purissima (contemporary cuplé) and Territoire (electronic). She has collaborated with other companies such as La Tristura and La Phármaco.
Regarding her career as a dancer and choreographer, she has completed her education in Spain and abroad. She has worked as a performer for several companies, projects or interventions: Claudia Faci, Eleanor Bauer, Dani Pannullo Dancetheatre.Co., Navidad Santiago, Noche en Blanco, Abita Danzah… She provides workshops in different cities and spaces and has been a teacher in the Reina Sofía Professional Dance Conservatory in Granada.
Along with Víctor Colmenero, they form Singing+Beehiver, under this pseudonym they make actions and projects based in the site-specific and the performance.
She puts together En Profundidad as to host her own projects around the work with the body, thoughts and dance. In 2011 she creates Naufragio, caída y vuelo (a series of short pieces). In June 2012 she premiers in Matadero Madrid, La Acción del Suicidio, her Final Choreography Degree Project. Her latest work, Saltar al vacío, was selected and awarded in the Choreography Contest of Madrid, in the 2012 edition and in the Fringe Festival in Stockholm: Stoff2013. Currently she is working on a new project: El vuelo, supported by the institutions Centro de Danza Canal from Madrid, CICUS from Seville and Grants for the production of Injuve.
Ivan Canu
Ivan Canu is an illustrator and director of Mimaster Editorial illustration. Also, he has a BA in History of Performance by the University of Florence. In 1990, he published Foresta di carte awarded with the European Prize Opera Prima. Since 1996, he works in Milan as a writer and illustrator.
Ivan has been the art director of Balzan International Foundation and Hystrio magazine. He has also organized seminars on editorial illustration at Scuola del Fumetto, Scuola del Castello Sforzesco Arte e Messaggio in Milan and at the Artelier association in Padua. For the A.I. (Associazione Illustratori), he has curated the exhibition catalog Favorisca, Carpi 2006 and the Italian Illustrators Annual 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Olga de Dios
(San Sebastián, 1979). I create, draw and color books for the childhood.
I studied Illustration at the Number 10 School of Art in Madrid.
In 2013 I received the Apila Award for Monstruo Rosa (Pink Monster), which meant the publication of my first illustrated album for children. Monstruo Rosa has received several recognitions such as the Golden Pinwheel 2013 in Shanghai, China, and the Cultural Triangle Prize 2014 of Cogam, among others. Monstruo Rosa has been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. On that same year I illustrated Cuentos clásicos para chicas modernas, a compilation of stories written by Lucía Etxebarria and published by Grupo Planeta. In 2014 I published my second work, in which I am both the author and illustrator and is called BUSCAR and has been published by NubeOcho. In 2015 I present Pájaro Amarillo, a new illustrated album for children, published by Apila Ediciones.
Currently I live in Madrid and I combine my career as an illustrator with being a graphic designer for several entities. A work focused on encouraging illustration as a tool for education and for communicating solidarity values.
La Furia Teatro
“I still believe in art so that the truth will not kill me”
J. Eines.
Furia Teatro was born in 2012. We created the company because of the need to tell stories. Our work comes from the relationships we establish. The common grounds. We question ourselves, we seek, play and tell. La máquina del tiempo is our third work together. A delicate project that takes place in collaboration with the artist Aitor Saraiba. Before that, we created Furia 2.0 and Los dioses heredados.
Furia 2.0. was our launch project as a group. It was a search, a question: Where does violence come from? I understand that violence does not only have negative connotations. It is going further. Surviving. Roughness and intensity. Beauty and destruction. Renovation. Starting in a world where we kill in public and make love in private.
The drama of Los dioses heredados, however, takes us to poetry to be confronted with a knife. We are referring to the heritage received: Our believes, the way we move our hands, the silence, the way we call things, songs or food obsessions. Noise heritage that affect us when it comes to making decisions.
Ana Garralón
She works as specialized bookseller and critic of literature for children since the end of 1989. Among her publications we can find Historia portátil de la literatura infantil and many articles in specialized press. She travels frequently across Spain and Latin America imparting workshops and giving conferences about books for children, besides collaborating with the Master of the University Autónoma of Barcelona and of Zaragoza. Informative books for children are her second research field.
Jorge González
(Buenos Aires, 1970). He lives in Spain since almost 20 years ago. His album “Fueye/Bandonéon” was awarded in 2009 with the First Prize of FNAC-Sinsentido Graphic Novel award. He has also published the stories for children “La Cueva del Bandolero” and “Kinú y la ley de Amarok”; The comic books “Hard Story” and “Hate Jazz”, together with Horacio Altuna, “Mendigo/Le Vagabond” with script from Carlos Jorge; “Fuenteovejuna”, “La Odisea” (SM). “Dear Patagonia/Chère Patagonie” during 2011 for Dupuis and Sins Entido. He is the author of the animated short film “Jazz son” and collaborates with “The New Yorker”. He has been part of the Orsai project since their beginning and has published “El gran surubí”. “El Señor de las Moscas” (Libros del Zorro Rojo), “Memorias del subsuelo” (Sexto Piso), “Barbosa el Pirata” (Mamut) and “Retour au Kosovo” (Dupuis) are his latest publications.
William Grill
William is a London based llustrator and recent graduate from University College Falmouth. He has worked for a variety of clients such as Harrods, Radley, Shelter and the New York Times. William has a penchant for small sketchbooks and finds most of his inspiration when wandering from one place to the next. He draws most of his inspiration from the natural world, and enjoys working in coloured pencils and relief printmaking. William runs art workshops, as well as a weekly art club at Hanover Primary School. His recent book The Shackleton’s Journey (Flying Eye Books) has been a run away success. It has been shortlisted this year for the Kate Greenaway Prize for Picture Books which is the most prestigious award in the UK. It also received Best Picture Book of The Year 2014 New York Times and Best Young Talent from the Association of Illustrators.
Jenan Ayleen Issa
Project and Business Development Manager TigerCreate
As Project Manager and responsible for the Business Development sector of TigerCreate, Jenan Ayleen Issa is driving sales and developing new marketing strategies with her team. Related to business developments she is focused on building fruitful relationships with publishers, national and international institutes in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Before she started managing the TigerCreate team, she was working closely together with the CEO of publishing house Oetinger, Till Weitendorf, as his personal assistant. In previous years, she worked as a public relations consultant and grew her experiences and knowledge while managing several research projects at German universities.
Ricardo Liniers Siri
Liniers is the second name of Ricardo Siri (born in Buenos Aires, on November 15, 1973). He started out by making fanzines and since 2001 he publishes his comic strips Macanudo in the daily newspaper La Nación. He has over 20 published books, where his more than 3,600 comic strips were compiled (Macanudo from 1 to 11), besides 2 books for children (Lo que hay antes que haya algo and Mamarracho) and one about his sketch notebooks (Cuadernos).Many of these books are published in Spain, United States, Brazil, Peru, Canada, Italy, France, Czech Republic, among other countries. In 2011 he founded Editorial Común, dedicated to publishing graphic novels from different writers and draftsmen, both national and international. Nowadays it has over 20 published books.
His originals and paintings exhibition (a retrospective that shows the different artistic sides of Liniers as a draftsman, illustrator, painter and muralist) travelled across several countries and cultural areas: Todo es Macanudo (Buenos Aires, 2014), Macanudismo (Mendoza, 2013), Macanudismo (Rio, Curitiba and Brasilia 2012), Todos miren para acá (Buenos Aires, 2013), Macanudismo (Rosario, 2011), Macanudismo (Buenos Aires, 2010) Macanudo (Ludi, 2001), Mono en Bicicleta (2003), Cuadernos (2006), Estudio Abierto (2006) and an exhibition of originals from the comic strip Macanudo toured along the different FNAC stores in Spain during 2007. The Barrilete Museum (Córdoba) developed in 2011 a ludic and interactive display based on his artwork, which invites to play and experiment with the different characters of the Macanudo world.
He made the cover for the albums of Kevin Johansen, Logo and La Lengua Popular from Andres Calamaro. He makes tours in which he paints live while his friend Kevin Johansen sings, and together they travelled across several European and Latin America countries. In 2013 his book The Big wet balloon was selected by The Parents Magazine as the best book for children of 2013. Macanudo 4, published in France, was selected on that same year by the Angouleme Festival. On March 2014, Liniers illustrated the front page of the prestigious The New Yorker magazine.
Mágoz
Magoz is an illustrator from Barcelona.
In 2013, he starts a nomadic adventure that brought him to live in countries as United Kingdom, Finland, Malaysia, Thailand or Cambodia.
He works intensely for newspapers and magazines as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American or Adweek and for advertising agencies as SCPF or 3C.
Through a poetic language, he conceives his own way of expression focusing on the conceptual value of the images. Always aiming for minimalism and simplicity, Magoz works only with few elements in order to communicate effectively. The elements are reduced to the minimum, resulting in images using powerful colours, without strokes, gradients or ornaments but full of meaning.
Mark Mills
Mark Mills is the founder of Plum Pudding Illustration Agency, the adventure begun with more than 20 years of experience in children books publishing industry. He loves his work as agent, because he allows him to be in touch with illustrators and publishers and know the synergies that surrounds each world. He believes in helping an artist to focus their career through building quality relationship and taking special care of detail.
Javier Olivares
Madrid 1964. Cartoonist and illustrator.
As an author he has published several albums, highlighting among them Estados Carenciales, La Caja Negra, Cuentos de La Estrella Legumbre and Las Crónicas de Ono y Hop.
He has published, along with the scriptwriter Santiago García, a comic strip adaptation of the classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the publishing house SM. He has collaborated with Fernando Marías in the books El Silencio se Mueve and Prisioneros de Zenda, both published by SM.
He has illustrated a great number of books for children and adults and his press illustrations have featured in newspapers such as El País or Público and currently can also be seen in El Mundo and El País Semanal.
He has imparted illustration workshops in Spain and in Latin America, and has recently published the graphic novel Las Meninas, published by ASTIBERRI and with script by Santiago García, which latest edition in France has been published by Futurópolis.
María Pascual
María Pascual (1973) has a BA in Fine Arts in Madrid with the qualification of Extraordinary Award and First National Final Degree Award of university education. After getting her doctorate in Drawing and Engraving she started to work as an illustrator and freelance designer.
Besides publishing articles related with her field of specialization in drawing theory, she has also collaborated as an illustrator with several magazines and publishing houses like Siruela, Palabra, Laberinto, Lunwerg, Edimat, Narval or SM. She has published over a dozen books, among them ¿Donde están mis gafas?, published by Thule and which earned the prestigious award White Ravens 2013, given by the Internationale Jugendbibliotethek of Munich to the most remarkable books of the year.
She has participated in around twenty exhibitions in centers and national and international museums, among them the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome, the Abstract Art Museum of Cuenca and the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid. Besides developing a work as a teacher in several programs, she frequently provides conferences regarding contemporary drawing and art and is currently the art director of Pluviam, a company dedicated to making multimedia and company identity projects based on illustration and graphic design.
Emiliano Ponzi
Based in Milan, Italy, his bold textured illustrations use repetition, a judicious use of line and strong graphic compositions to define and communicate the concept at hand through the use of conceptual metaphores.
His illustrations appear in advertising, magazines, book, newspapers and animations. His clients include The New York Times, Le Monde, The New Yorker, The Economist, Newsweek, Time Out New York, Hyundai, Louis Vuitton, United Airlines, Penguin books, Starbucks, Saatchi&Saatchi New York, Amnesty International and in Italy: Armani, La Repubblica, Feltrinelli, Lavazza, Mondadori, TIM, Rolling Stone, Triennale Design Museum.
Emiliano has received numerous honors including the Young Guns Award from the the New York’s Art Directors Club, medals of honor from the Society of Illustrators New York, Los Angeles and 3×3 Magazine Pro show. Awards of excellence from Print, How International Design Award, Communication Arts Illustration Annuals and American Illustration Annuals. Last award was the coveted Gold Cube from The Art Directors Club of New York, received in the 2013. “10×10” his first monography (Ita-Eng) was published by Corraini in 2011 and was sold out either first and second edition.
He is considere one of the best illustrators of his generation.
Djamel Salhi
For more than 2 and a half years Djamel Salhi now is working as one of the animation designers at Oetinger Publishing House in Hamburg. He is responsible for the development of classic children’s books, starting with the design of an interactive book up to its animation to bring the tales to life. While studying communication design Djamel put focus on the interaction of a book itself, animation and visual storytelling which is the key to create innovative multimedia experiences. In the past he has been working as a freelance illustrator for companies like the Siegfried Wagner Gesellschaft.
Aitor Saraiba
Aitor Saraiba (Talavera de la Reina, 1983) has worked and lived in places as far away as Cuenca, Manchester, Mexico and Los Angeles. He has a BA in Fine Arts from the Cuenca University and feels confortable developing his work in drawing, photography, illustrated novel, video and ceramic sculpture.
In 2012 he presented a photographic documentary about fans of the Anglo-Saxon musician Morrisey called Let me kiss you in the Art Center 2 de Mayo and in February 2010 his works with the camera were also shown at La Fresh Gallery in Madrid along with his drawings and paintings. Until January 2012, Saraiba exhibited in the BLO Gallery the retrospective of his drawings: 10 Años Pintando la Mona. He has also presented his work in the Fúcares Gallery, Mad is Mad, Mutt, among other galleries and art centers. He is a facilitator in drawing workshops at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, with whom he also collaborated and the Japanese company Nintendo for the Art Academy videogame for Nintendo DS.
His illustrated novel El hijo del legionario (Edicions de Ponent Publisher, 2011) has conquered the main bookstores of the country. Before this publication, he increased awareness of his work on this genre through self-publishing like Un pony muerto, Tus ídolos favoritos, El viaje más largo de mi vida or Heavy Metal. Pajarillo (Edicions de Ponent Publisher, 2012) was his second graphic novel and was selected as best graphic novel of the year by the Mondo Sonoro magazine. Nada más importa (Lunwerg, 2013) is his latest graphic novel.
The conjunction of literature and illustration has allowed him to develop the street action he calls “healing drawings” in which he establishes a direct connection with the audience, as each person tells him their concerns, dreams and worries that he interprets and exorcises in the form of an illustration. This literary performance made him one of the special guests of la Noche en Blanco 2009 in Madrid, Santander 2016 or MUSAC.
His incursion in ceramics is his sculpture interpretation of the artistic concepts above mentioned. Ceramics made with the Talavera Ceramic Center using the traditional technique of his native city. Pieces numbered in limited edition that he has exhibited in exhibitions, specialized decoration stores and he has made special editions for the brand SISLEY.
Britta Teckentrup
Britta Teckentrup is an award winning illustrator, author and fine artist.
She was born in Hamburg, growing up in a town called Wuppertal. She moved to London to study illustration and fine art at St Martin’s College and the Royal College of Art.
Britta has written and illustrated over 70 children’s books which have been published in over 20 different countries.
After 17 years in the UK – Britta now lives and works in Berlin with her Scottish husband, son Vincent and their old cat Oskar.
Ana Ventura
Ana Ventura was born 1972. She has a BA in Painting from the “Lisbon School of Fine-Arts”, with a stay at the “École Supérieure d’Art Visuel La Cambre”, in Brussels. Her creative language widens and materializes very soon in numerous aspects: we can find her nature as illustrator and plastic artist as well as her brand in a wide variety of media, from books to decorative vinyls, from postcards to clothes or accessories. She has done individual and group art exhibitions in Portugal and abroad since 1996. A project that has made a greater international impact has been her personalized All Stars sneakers for the centenary of Converse 2008. Her works have been chosen for the 2010 Bologna Children’s Book Fair (exhibition of illustrators from Portugal as guest country), also the 2013 Bratislava Book Fair, the 4th Biennial of Illustration Bratislava – BIB and Ilustrarte 14 Biennial. Recently, she has ben selected in Korea for the 2nd “Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration” competition. She has illustrated books for publishing houses in Italy, Norway and Portugal and has published some illustrated books in Germany too. She is artist for the Centro Português de Serigrafia’s gallery. At the present time, she lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Ellen Weinstein
Ellen Weinstein was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute and New York’s High School of Art and Design. Awards include American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Print’s Regional Design Annual, Society of Publication Designers, and The Art Directors Club. She’s featured in an eight-page article in the March/April 2013 issue of Communication Arts. Ellen’s work is also featured in Illustration Now 5! by Taschen.
She exhibits her work in local New York galleries as well as galleries in the US and Italy. She lectures and conducts workshops in various art schools and internationally including CEDRA Education, Moscow, Russia, Associazione Culturale Teatrio in Venice, Italy, Amarillo Design Space in Xalapa, Mexico and at ICON6 The Illustration Conference. She is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a Judge for this year’s 3 x 3 Illustration Professional Show, World Illustration Awards/AOI competition and has served as a judge for the Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition and the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competitions.
Ellen was the President of ICON8 The Illustration Conference that was held July 9-12, 2014 in Portland Oregon. She also served as the Programming Chair for ICON7. Ellen is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Illustrators and serves as Chairman of the Museum Committee.
Her clientes include: The Atlantic, GQ Magazine, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Berkley Books, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com, Nautilus, Scholastic, PLANSPONSOR, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Master Card Advisors and Georges DuBoeuf wine.
Javier Zabala
(León, España, 1962). Javier Zabala, Spanish National Award 2005, is one of the most outstanding illustrators in Europe. He has illustrated more than 80 books of poetry and fiction for adults and children, some of them written by himself. His books have been translated into 17 languages and received many international recognitions, including two Honourable Mentions in the Bologna Ragazzi Awards. He has been finalist in the Andersen Award 2012 and currently he’s the Spanish Candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2015.
He has illustrated texts by Cervantes, Shakespeare, García Lorca, Rodari, Melville, Chejov… and even Van Gogh
He works as a teacher in courses and lectures in Universities and Schools of Arts in Spain and Italy, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Iran, Cuba, Brasil, Venezuela, Israel…
His work has been exhibited around the world.