Étienne Delessert (born in Switzerland, based in USA)

"Translating my own and the world's ideas, passions, fantasies, and nightmares into the visual language of books, magazine illustrations, posters, animated films, paintings, and sculptures." - Etienne Delessert

Source: Illustration Now! 3, 2009, First Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 110-111)

• Etienne Delessert Website
• Interview on Blaine: Seven Impossible Things before Breakfast
• Interview on We Too Were Children

Esther Casas Roura (New York)

"I own my observations of the world through my characters, in their own environment, and I allow no limitations on subject matter." - Esther Casas Roura

Source: Illustration Now! 3, 2009, First Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 92-93)

• Creamen the stop-motion animated short film

Eduardo Bertone (born in Argentina, based in Spain)

"Different media get fused together in spontaneous, chaotic, and strident ways to wake us up from a sedative and superficial world. Textures and colours enwrap us, representing the visual saturation commonly used to achieve dazzle, and creating dreams, desires, and insecurity." - Eduardo Bertone

Source: Illustration Now! 3, 2009, First Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 48-49)

• Eduardo Bertone Website
• Eduardo Bertone on Blogger
• Eduardo Bertone on Art Break
• Eduardo Bertone on Saatchi Online
• Interview on A Good Son
• Eduardo Bertone on Fine Art America (eShop)

Eda Akaltun (Turkey, based in London)

“Old photos and magazines inspire me because of their colours, textures and fashions. I use these to create futuristic, false-perspective environments." - Eda Akaltun

Source: Illustration Now! 4, 2011, Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 18-21)

• Eda Akaltun Website Link
• Biography
• Eda Akaltun on Heart Agency (London & New York)
• Interview: Then X Ten: Eda Akaltun, on Herman Miller
• Interview on DGCV (in Spanish)
• Eda Akaltun on Creative Review (Eda Akaltun's illustrated BAFTA programmes)
• It's nice that (Eda Akaltun's illustrated BAFTA programmes)
• Style Sight (Sureal Fusion: Eda Akaltun)
• The Fox is Black
• Sergeant Paper Art Store Paris
• Lumas UK

Eito Yoshikawa (Japan)

The artistic career of Eito Yoshikawa (b. 1971 in Osaka) began in 1988. His first exhibition took place in 1993, in the Paradise Gallery in Osaka. This was followed by others in Hyogo, Kyoto and Tokyo. In 2005 the publisher of the newspaper Asahi Shimbun organized an extensive exhibition of his work.

"My illustrations are based on Buddhist philosophy." -- Eito Yoshikawa.

[Derived from: Campos, C. (2011) Japanese illustration now. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson Ltd.. (p. 50, 52)]

Click for his WEBSITE!

During the evening and night

2004

Acrylic

Love in a distant place

2005

Acrylic