Laura Orsolini
Artist and children's book author-illustrator
I received my art degree from the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Rome, Italy. For about ten years, I worked as a commercial illustrator for magazines and advertising agencies. Afterwards, I devoted my creative practice almost exclusively to writing and illustrating children’s books, and attended several courses in children’s book illustration at the International Summer School of Sàrmede in Treviso, Italy. Early in this new phase of my career, some of my work was selected for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and I went on to publish more than a dozen books as an illustrator, and at times also as an author, with publishers in different countries.
More recently, I felt compelled to further extend my research. The result has been a new series of images not strictly related to a text but rather inspired by those inner images which spontaneously form in my mind.
I work patiently to turn these ideas into drawings and I share them, in the hope they will resonate as well with my viewers.
I work patiently to turn these ideas into drawings and I share them, in the hope they will resonate as well with my viewers.
I am always happy to connect with fellow artists and art-lovers, online and in person. I live in Munich, Germany, and occasionally travel to my hometown, Rome, Italy. Please feel free to follow the links below to connect with me on social media or to discover my work.
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