After finishing her degree in Graphic Design in 2001, Montreal-based illustrator Isabelle Arsenault, quickly began contributing to several magazines in Canada and in the US. A couple of years later she illustrated her first children's book, for which she received the prestigious Governor General's Award for children's literature in French (illustration). Her passion for illustrated books has led her to continue pursuing this path and creating work that attracts the attention of the young as much as that of older people, who can sometimes have a more in-depth understanding of it.
To see more of Isabelle's work head to her website.
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Jennifer Parks is an illustrator, cartoonist and co-owner of the Ponyclub Gallery, currently living in the city of Portland, Oregon. With a love nature, art, and all things magical, Jennifer's work is inspired by childhood memories, dreams, nightmares, the beauty and mystery of life, death, and the ever expanding cosmos.
You can check out more of her art on her website. Sarah Burwash is a full time artist and freelance illustrator with a BFA in drawing and printmaking, living in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of media from drawing and collage to video and ceramics, Sarah’s work most often takes form in narrative watercolour paintings and installations inspired by history and her upbringing in a small mountain town in British Columbia, Canada. We love her use of mark making and intricate detailing throughout all of her work.
Check out more of Sarah's work here. Darcy Allan is an illustrator and vintage lover with a BAA in Illustration from Sheridan College, Ontario. Her cotton-candy coloured world is full to the brim with pretty bows, cute kittens and divine long-haired maidens with eyes we could stare into all day long. With a background in Graphic Design, Darcy also uses her talents to design sweet cards, prints and quirky packaging.
You can check out her works online via her blog, website or etsy. Andrew Groves is an illustrator and maker of things currently based in Brighton, England. Touching on themes of natural phenomenon and wilderness exploration, Andrews charming and zany work often includes quirky little woodland men and an abundance of charming motifs inspired by the natural world around him. While working on personal projects, Andrew has also created work for well-known brands including Google, Lazy Oaf, Threadless and Foundation Skateboards.
To see more of Andrews work head over to his personal website. We recently stumbled upon the lovely works of UK based artist, Lily Moon. Inspired by imaginary stories and folk art, Lily's delicate drawings and paintings often depict elements of nature and beautiful maidens reminiscent of characters found in a Jane Austen novel.
Too see more work by Lily check out her etsy store or blog. Moscow artist Oleg Dou creates artworks that lie between the beautiful and the repulsive, the living and the dead. His portraits are the receptacle of the evils, fantasies and tendencies of our time and raise the question of identity. By alteration, scarification, radiation, the portrait becomes an abstract canvas; a place of creative expression.
You can see more of Oleg's work here. Lydia Meiying is an Illustrator and Surface Pattern Designer based in Manchester, UK. Since graduating from Leeds College of Art in 2008, Lydia has been working as a freelance designer designing patterns and graphics for fashion, interior, stationary and trend forecasting. Many of her darling designs are also available as wallpaper, fabric, aprons, cushions, tote bags, etc. We're a little obsessed with the woodland creatures pattern.
To see more of Lydia's work head over to her website. We're really loving the cute, whimsical work of Spanish artist, Lady Desidia. Delicately drawn and painted doe-eyed maidens with birds in their hair, are just some of the gorgeous motifs within her work. For those of you that love a bit of wearable art (who doesn't?), you can get yourselves some Lady Desidia bags, necklaces, brooches and more by checking out her blog here.
We're big Jen Mann fans here at Pony Anarchy and we know many of you lovely readers are too. In her most recent series 'Gathering of the Psyche', Jen explores ideas that are more existential and spiritual in nature, focusing on soul. She draws on the existential blanket theory that everything is the same. By using the white on white technique to illustrate this concept, Jen helps us visualize her view of something entirely intangible - the aspects of soul. These beautiful works capture the essence of a feeling, or a thought, where images are floating and blending with the background. The subjects merge with each other and the loose and painterly background peeks through letting the white space become the focus.
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