Isabelle Arsenault was born in 1978 in Sept-Iles, Quebec. After studies in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, she specialized in illustration. Quickly, she gained recognition from the industry and her peers through several awards from major international illustration contests such as Communication Arts, American Illustration and Applied Arts. In 2005, she won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for the illustration of her first children’s book, Le Coeur de Monsieur Gauguin. Her passion for children’s imaginations allows her to produce images that appeal to young readers as well as older ones. Through children’s illustration she gives life to her own childhood dreams and in doing so, she hopes to inspire upcoming generations. Isabelle Arsenault now lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Geraldo Valério
Andrej Krystoforski
Andrej obtained a Masters Degree from the Academy of Art in Warsaw, Poland. There he studied painting and later graphic design and illustration. He felt comfortable working simultaneously on a variety of projects – including posters, logo designs, book covers, illustrations, cartoons and caricature works. After building a solid career filled with many achievements, awards, scholarships and points of recognition, Andrej has come full circle and returned to his original, true passions; painting, and illustrating children’s books. Taking comfort in pursuing art for the sake of simplistic joy and peace.
Joseph Kelly
Joseph Kelly is the illustrator of the popular Kids Can Press Martin Bridge book series. He came to children’s illustration along a roundabout route that threaded through industrial design and concept animation.#He has always drawn, and in high school he used charcoal and brown paper to people the walls of his room with life-sized portraits of characters from The Lord of the Rings, something he would certainly do again if he were sure his wife wouldn’t mind living with a houseful of goblins. Though his drawings for the Martin Bridge books are somewhat smaller than life-sized, the number of shaded graphite drawings and acrylic paintings comes to over 650 pieces of art.#When he isn’t illustrating, Joseph uses a homemade lens and plumber’s pipe viewer to explore tide pools at the shore near his home in Sonoma, California, and is known for painting very large portraits of very small beach puddle residents.
Stéphane Poulin
Stéphane Poulin is a children’s book illustrator and artist. He has won both the Governor General’s Award and the Mr. Christie’s Book Award for his work. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.