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Trisha Krauss lives and works as an illustrator in London. She spent 16 years working in New York City before moving to London. She is married to Antonio from Rome and has three step-children. In New York, she primarily painted with acrylic on plywood, and due to the lack of three-quarter-inch ply in the U.K., she began painting with watercolor and ink. She does have a stash of plywood in her cellar and continues to deplete the earth of fir trees in the name of art.
Illustration, for Daria Jabenko, is inspiring a world of dreams. Every illustration has a personality. The palette of colors can be sensuous and complex or sleek, simple and gleaming, but above all, unexpected, potent and creatively ambitious. The invented world should be a place to go that’s familiar, almost nostalgic, yet strange and new. Her main objective is to provoke positive feelings and a better mindset in the audience. Daria creates most of her illustrations by hand using gouache medium in combination with ink and watercolor.
Lisa Henderling knew she wanted to be an illustrator by the age of six, when she would hide under the piano and draw women with pink hair. Though her show-business parents wanted her to continue in the family tradition, they soon realized that Lisa’s acting and dancing abilities were more than questionable so they acquiesced to her begging for art lessons.
Julia Breckenreid’s illustration work is informed by a diverse background of experiences and perspectives. Both conceptual and intuitive, her versatile palette and agile approach enable her to quickly grasp a client’s needs, to find the right tone and deliver the most compelling visual expression of their message.
Diana Marye Huff attended the Art Center College of Design and the School of Visual Arts. She began her career in New York as a fashion illustrator for Bloomingdale’s, Vogue, Tiffany, and Nieman Marcus. Known for her line work and pattern design, she then expanded her work to include package design, book illustration, and card and wrapping paper design. Most recently, she has returned to school to study oil painting. Ms. Huff says, “As an illustrator you always want to challenge yourself and keep your work relevant in an ever-changing marketplace.”
It’s obvious from looking at her images that Eva Renes definitely has good fashion sense. Eva studied at the Academy Italia in Florence where she earned a Master’s Degree in Fashion. Today she works in Germany as a freelance designer and illustrator and creates images for fashion magazines and corporate collateral material.
Pep Montserrat was born in Roda de Ter, near Barcelona. He has created illustrations for El País, La Vanguardia, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, the New Yorker, Harpers’s Magazine, Travel + Leisure and other newspapers and magazines in the United States and Spain. He has also illustrated several children’s books, some of which have been published in Spain, France, Italy, USA, Switzerland, Brazil, Korea and Portugal. His work on children’s books has won numerous awards and honors.
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Coming from a family of artists, it was natural for Janice Fried to express herself visually. A graduate of Parson’s School of Design, Janice works in a multi- media style using watercolor, colored pencils, collage, pen and ink and a scratching technique. Her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, advertising, book covers, children’s books, pop-up books, text books, card decks, greeting cards, CD covers and music books.
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Trisha Krauss is an American illustrator based in London. She began her career in New York City where she established herself as an award-winning illustrator. Her work has appeared in many publications, advertising campaigns and books. In New York she was known for her figurative illustrations that were painted on plywood. This style obtained recognition for its sophistication and wit. In London she has expanded stylistically by painting with watercolor and ink, and this offers her more versatility in subject matter.
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Leigh Viner was born and raised in Denver, where she still lives and works. She is currently expanding into fashion design, which has always been a large influence on her work, but she mostly creates from her emotions and life experiences. In addition to being an artist, Leigh works part-time as a freelance makeup artist. This skill gives her a better understanding of the structure of her subjects’ faces and influences the color in her art.
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Aimee Sicuro received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. After experience working as a line designer for American Greetings and a Flash Animator for a once-budding dot-com in San Francisco, she packed her portfolio and headed to New York. Inspired by circumstance and in search of a new perspective, she took a job as a project manager and illustrator at a design firm in Soho.
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Sophie Blackall has illustrated fifteen and a half children’s books (including Ruby’s Wish, Meet Wild Boars, Wombat Walkabout and the Ivy and Bean series), and her work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers (including The New York Times, Food & Wine and Town & Country). She is a collector of rotten old dolls and Victorian children’s shoes, a fancier of moths and shadows and indexes and other people’s shopping lists.
In college, Judy Stead majored in her two favorite subjects, reading and drawing, and has found this to be an endlessly useful combination over a creative career as teacher, designer, art director, artist and illustrator. Besides illustrating books for children, Judy’s art appears in other print media magazines, greeting cards, gift wrap and on paper partyware. And sometimes, in galleries and museum shops, when there’s time to do work that isn’t on assignment!
Hadley Hutton grew up in a home filled with color, with a mother who felt that humanity’s greatest invention was the color wheel. Hadley recalls her mom changing wall colors as often as other people change the sheets. One day, little Hadley met an artist who painted for his profession and her exact words were, “People get paid to do this?” Today, she lives her dream working as an illustrator and artist in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Hadley’s work is a blend of traditional painting and modern design.
Louis St. Lewis was the perfect choice for The Eve Issue this month, as his celebrated mixed-media collages are frequently based on the intersection of mythology and religion. Andy Warhol commented that Louis’s work was “like Hieronymus Bosch meets MTV!” With over 30 national and international solo exhibitions to his credit, Louis’s creations are in the collections of such notables as HRH The Prince of Kuwait, Christian LaCroix, André Leon Talley and Oprah Winfrey.
