Abigail Roscoe
Abigail is a Mexican Canadian multidisciplinary artist, who loves to focus on illustration. Most of her time is spent illustrating children's books and working on her own writing projects, such as comics, short visual narratives and picture books. Abigail has a passion for animals and nature conservation, and she hopes to let this passion show through her work.
Abigail currently lives in Switzerland, but she has moved a lot during her life and draws inspiration from the many places she's lived in: the Canadian wilderness, Mexico and its folk tales and the Swiss mountains and cityscapes are some themes that show in her work. Abigail’s illustrative style ranges in form, but it features expressive animals and detailed, immersive illustrations. She is also autistic and disabled, and her illustrations have been a tool to reflect on several aspects of her own life, from the neurodivergent experience to exploring identity and belonging through art.
Abigail completed her bachelor's degree in The Netherlands when she graduated from Hanzehogeschool Academie, Minerva, with a focus on illustration and animation. Her background in animation also helps her to create lively, dynamic scenes and expressive, relatable characters.
Kirsti Vass
Kirsti of ArtbyKirsti is a self-taught artist who works primarily in acrylic, watercolours (with pen) and in pencil. After studying Art at school, Kirsti dabbled in many different arts and crafts, but she could never settle on anything that held her creative self captive.
As her family grew, she trained as a primary teacher and used her love of art to help inspire her students to discover their own creativity. Due to health issues, Kirsti took early retirement and now spends more time exploring her artistic style.
Settling on acrylics and watercolours as her favourite mediums, Kirsti now lovingly paints pet portraits, landscapes and has discovered a joy in sketching architecture, quaint shop fronts and coffee carts. Prints of her local beach and lighthouse have been made into postcards, which are on sale in one of the popular ice cream shops in her town. Kirsti has also partnered with a local entrepreneur to provide the only ‘Paint and Sip’ parties in their area of North Scotland, where she passionately encourages creative juices to flow in a fun and carefree environment.
Yorris Handoko
Yorris Handoko is a fulltime illustrator based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has been illustrating children's books since 2021 and received first place in the Self Published Children's Book Awards and honourable mention in the Design and Production categories in the 2023 Catholic Media Awards event in Baltimore, USA, for his illustrations in the book Mysteries of the Holy Rosary: The Life of Jesus and Mary. For further information, Yorris can be reached at yorris.handoko.gmail.com.
Andrea Corsini
Andrea Corsini is a freelance fantasy and dark-fantasy illustrator and concept artist from Italy.
Growing up, Andrea was an avid collector of anything fantasy, such as small figurines of mythological creatures, minerals, much-loved video games and books. One of her favourite books is Faeries, which was written and illustrated by Brian Froud and Alan Lee in 1978. This book helped Andrea shape her childhood through its magical illustrations and stories.
Also influenced by history and gothic themes, Andrea strives to illustrate artworks full of storytelling, emotion and dynamic lighting.
She has worked for trading card games (TCGs), indie video games and book publishing and can be reached at corasndrea@gmail.com for any projects related to fantasy and dark fantasy themes.
Rupert Godesen
Rupert is a keen cartoonist, having wasted a very expensive education doodling and drawing Asterix & Obelix in the margins of his exercise books. He continued this through art college, and it came in very useful when he was commissioned to go to Kabul to teach a group of artists from the art faculty.
In his spare time, Rupert is an avid vegetable grower, having picked up the passion from his grandfather. During his time living in London and Bournemouth, every available square inch of the garden had a pot or grow bag in it with a tomato, courgette or runner bean in it. Now, his bookshelves at home in France are groaning with books and magazines on the subject. Other interests include survival skills (he has run several courses for the military and for civvy friends), running and cycling. He is also interested in “The Great Game” era in India and Pakistan, about which he intends to write a novel.
Ari Silva
Ari is a 19-year-old artist, who began illustrating children's books at the age of 15. He believes that cooperation and communication is very important when it comes to creating. Ari has always looked to different and diverse sources of inspiration in order to learn and be the most versatile creator he could be.
Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, Ari has been exposed to many different cultures and people, which reflects in his art through diversity and representation in characters. He believes children's books should be magical, reflecting and facilitating a child's bright and colourful imagination.
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