Kwanchai Moriya is an illustrator and painter. He was born in New York and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He completed his education with a degree in History from the University of California and a degree in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design. Kwanchai lives and works in Los Angeles, California.#He has a passion for making fun illustrations, and has worked primarily in board games, card games and children’s books. Kwanchai is also an avid painter, working mostly in acrylics with science fiction and fantasy themes. His other hobbies include making wood toys, playing board games and talking to his tortoise, Clementine.~Facebook: @KwanchaiMoriya~Instagram: @kwanchaimoriya

David Anderson grew up on a ranch in the South African bushveld, where he came in daily contact with a variety of animals from monkeys to white rhinos. He was sent to boarding school at an early age and received some unwelcome attention for lampooning the teachers before finally being asked to illustrate the dormitory walls. This went to his head and he has been drawing ever since.#He worked as the editorial cartoonist for a number of South African publications, including the anti-apartheid mouthpiece The Rand Daily Mail until its closure and for the Johannesburg Star, that country’s largest daily paper. He moved with his family to Canada in 1990, where he became a freelance illustrator and writer. ~ ~David has always had a deep commitment to wildlife conservation, and this is evident in his children’s stories and illustrations. Along with his two collections of short stories, “Whispers from the Bushveld” and “More Tales from the Bushveld”, he has recently completed three stories and a one-act play that are to be incorporated into the South African school curriculum.

Katty Maurey is an illustrator working from Montreal.#Born in Paris to a Chinese mother and a French father, she grew up in Hong Kong and later Paris before calling Montreal her home. She has always loved illustrated books and make-believe worlds. As a young girl, she could spend hours absorbed by details in the pictures that made stories come to life. Loving both nature and the city, Katty developed a fascination for the vivid colors around her. In her subtle way, she strives to express the small things in life that turn our everyday world into a fantastical one.#Later on, she studied graphic design at UQAM. She then went on to work professionally as an illustrator for various books published by Kids Can Press, Owl Kids, la courte échelle and la Pastèque. Her books are published in both French and English, and have been translated to Spanish, Catalan, Korean and Japanese. Among other distinctions, she was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for French-language children’s illustration. #When not in her garden, Katty spends her artistic time between illustrations for books and working on multimedia shows, coming up with fun costumes and lavish set designs where she can let her imagination run wild. Among the many things that occupy her time, she always tries to make room for her lazy dog and her very slow-blooming orchids.#Following an extensive stay in Rome in the winter of 2019, she is currently working on an illustrative~project that draws inspiration from Greek mythology, Roman history and tales of the ancient world.

Suana Verelst was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and grew up in Kortrijk, a Belgian town close to the French border. She studied drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, before leaving for Canada to continue her studies in Art History, Fine Arts and Graphic Design.#After a successful conclusion of her studies, with several diplomas, she worked as an assistant production manager and colorist for a publisher of children’s books in Montreal. Having viewed a beautiful catalog of the illustrators’ exhibit from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Suana was inspired to become a children’s book illustrator.#She has illustrated many books for publishers in Canada, the United States, Belgium and France. Suana approaches each new book with techniques that suit the story. Her style resembles a quilt of various expressions woven into one — from traditional, realistic imagery, to collage and texture, to quirky and surrealistic illustrations.#She has received many awards for her outstanding work. Her latest book, Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education, was named an Honour Book by the jury of the 2014 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. In 2012, Suana won the French-Language TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for her illustrations in La saison des pluies. A number of her illustrations have been featured in major exhibitions, such as the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, as part of the Flemish illustrators’ exhibit, and at a group exhibition of children’s book illustrators at the “4th Annual New York Showcase Children’s Book Art Exhibition” in New York City. #Suana is inspired by living in one of the oldest working-class neighborhoods in Montreal, surrounded by green spaces and lots of birds. When she is not working on a project drawing or gluing bits of paper, she is probably making a papier-mâché puppet or admiring an old building on the way to her yogalates class …

Raised on a farm in rural Australia, Alex Ries is a Melbourne-based illustrator and concept artist with several years’ experience across the industry. His artwork has been featured by publishers and publications, including Australian Geographic, Pearson Education Canada and the Discovery Channel.~ ~He also works as a concept artist in the film and video games industries, including creature design for the video game Subnautica. Alex received a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne. He studied a diverse range of visual media including painting, 3D visualization and film – all of which provided him with a broad base of creative skill from which to operate.~ ~This education and experience, coupled with a strong interest in biology, zoology and real-world technology, has fostered an artistic style capable of accurately illustrating not only life from the real world but also from fiction.