Mark Ryden (USA)

• Mark Ryden Homepage
• on Wikipedia Profile
• Incarnation by Mark Ryden, on Youtube

• Mark Ryden on TASCHEN
• on Between Mirrors
• on Ferrebeekeeper
• on The Fox is Black

Nicoletta Ceccoli (San Marino, Italy)

"My illustrations play with contradictions. They are whimsical, but also disturbing, dreamlike and thought-provoking. Like the dark side of a nursery rhyme, a dream of lovely things with a hint of darkness." - Nicoletta Ceccoli.

Source: Illustration Now! 4, 2011, Ed. Julius Wiedemann, Germany: TASCHEN. (pp. 64-67)

• Nicoletta Ceccoli Homepage
• on Wikipedia Profile
• on Living Design
• on AFA Gallery Profile and Biography
• Interview of Nicoletta, by Arrested Motion
• on Daily Art Fixx
• on My Modern Met
• on Seven Impossible Things
• on Empty Kingdom
• on Indies Art
• on Youtube

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

Rob Bridges (USA)

• Rob Bridges Main Website
• Rob Bridges on Etsy Shop

Media: Water colours, pencil and oils.

His beautiful imagery strikes a balance between realism and fantasy, inviting us into the realm of imagined stories which are the inspiration for his work.

Of his work, he says: ‘From my earliest memory, I have always drawn. As a child in school I never liked to read. My father and teacher’s remedy was to draw pictures on the inside flaps of my school books. Somehow this was meant to boost my interest in reading. Yet, it created a child who took great pleasure drawing on the inside flaps of all my father’s books and papers’.

‘Since then, I have worked in some visual atmosphere or other, graduating from Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA and working as a senior creative in a design firm. These days i live in Los Angeles. I like rabbits and mochi ice cream. Yet, I sometimes wonder if one day I will end up having children who will draw pictures on the inside flaps and pages of all my books. Such is life’.

Yolanda Perez aka Arwassa (Spain)

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Hiromi Toriyama (Japan)

Hiromi Toriyama was born in Osaka in 1981 and graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 2004. In 2007 she opened her own studio, Studio: mu, in partnership with Natsuko Yoshino. Of all the awards she has won, the most noteworthy is the top prize in the design category at the 57th Kansai Nika Exhibition.

Website: Hiromi Toriyama

Email: hiromi-toriyama81@yahoo.co.jp

Lesson I (2007)

Lesson II (2007)

Lesson III (2007)

Sunset (2007)

[Derived from: Campos, C. (2011) Japanese illustration now. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson Ltd.. (p.89)]