Diego Fernandez

Argentinian painter, Diego Fernandez paints women in a style that is very art deco, their hair becomes a decorative focus, with a lyrical, expressive line.

Jana Glatt IV

A delightfully surreal underwater cycle by Argentinian illustrator Jana Glatt, who packs so much humour and expression into her visual stories.

Maria J de Telleria III

A beautiful illustration by Maria J de Telleria.

Natalia Colombo

Argentinian illustrator, Natalia Colombo's surreal amorphous landscapes are alive with anthropomorphic landscapes and strange otherworldly creatures, bright and peaceful. Natalia's works are currently being exhibited at Gallery Mar Dulce.

Estrelita Caracol

Estrelita Caracol has been 'casting for a monster who can dance', what a wonderful idea. Estrelita works mainly in collage here she has jigsawed her characters together from fragments of prints and funny notions. but she also use maps, music and many other papers and materials. 

Maria J de Telleria I

My life is full of birds at the moment and so are these lyrical and sublime illustrations featuring birds by Maria J de Telleria.

I have a tailless black bird who looks through the window, to see when I am up, and gives me a meaningful stare until I fetch him a hand full of raisins which he then crams into his sunshine yellow beak and flies off to feed his chicks. 

The seagull raps with increasing urgency on the skylight for food, as his chicks swell up and look like roof top penguins, grey and downy, plodding around on the precipice of fledging. 

This morning I was awoken at the other side of the house by the rasp of magpies and looked down at my cherry tree to see the chicks, wings out, fluttering demanding to be fed, and I am in love with them all. 

 Maria J de Telleria is an Argentinian illustrator who tells stories often with a moment of line, capturing expression, intent and fun in an instant, beautiful work.

Maria Luque

After the domestic intimacies of Natasha Uspenskaya today we are off to bed with bright contemporary images by Argentinian illustrator Maria Luque.

Elsa Henriquez Muñoz I

These illustrations are from 'Cuentos para niños no tan buenos' written by Jacques Prévert and illustrated by Elsa Henriquez Muñoz and first published in 1947.
The illustrations are strange, surreal, quirky and naive and bring to mind the illustrative work that both Edward Lear and Spike Miligan made to support their Limericks and rhymes.

Elsa Henriquez Muñoz an Argentinian, was the daughter of dancer Helba Huara (see below) and musician Gonzalo Morè.

She lived in  Paris and was friends with many of the Surrealists and intellectuals of the city such as Cesar Vallejo, Neruda, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Carpentier and Octavio Paz. She worked as a graphic designer and made scenery for theatre. Her illustration work appears almost exclusively in books by the poet Jacques Prévert.

(Above) Photograph by Emile Savitry of Elsa and some of her Argentinian friends.

In 1940 she married painter and photographer Emile Savitry they were married until his death in 1967. Elsa died in her adopted city of Paris in 2010.

Maria Zeta

Argentinian Maria Zeta is a diverse creator working in film, illustration, print and toy development her work has lots of character and love.

Mariana Ruiz Johnson

A wordless jewel of a  book imagining events 'While you sleep' by Argentinian illustrator Mariana Ruiz Johnson. Mariana's illustrations were the winning  illustrations of the 2015 Silent Book Contest at Bologna Children's Book Festival. They are rich with colour and detail like a summer night sky full of stars, the colours are vivid and the story keeps you running through the pages wondering what is going to happen.

Claudia Legnazzi III "Una casa bien abierta"

Some more images and a book trailer for 'Una casa Bien Abierta' written by Carlos Alberto Rosa and illustrated by Claudia Legnazzi

Claudia Legnazzi II

Painted stones and beach combings are treasure indeed when transformed by the imagination of Claudia Legnazzi. These illustrations by Claudia are from the book 'Une Casa Bien Albierta' by Carlos Alberto Rosa.

Claudia Legnazzi I

This is the work of Argentinian artist Claudia Legnazzi, it is surreal, sometimes disturbing and utterly wonderful to. Claudia currently lives and works in Mexico.

Gabriela Burin II

I love these illustrations they make me laugh and laughter is just so good. Gabriela Burin's larger than life characters made from tiny pieces of printed and painted paper are so clever they make you reel with so many possible stories.

Gabriela Burin I

Time to leap into the New Year and what better than these fabulous collaged illustrations from Dorothy Climbs by Argentinian illustrator Gabriela Burin. 

Eleonora Arroyo III

Some happy musical animals today by Eleonora Arroyo to celebrate it being Friday. I can hear the music they are playing and it is lovely.

Irene Banchero

Just love the warmth of these spheres by Irene Banchero and their lovely colours. today's inspiration. I am finding it quite difficult to find very much information on Irene, she works in many different media and her work often veers towards product design.

Dimas Melfi

I seem to be having a photography phase, especially as I found these wonderful atmospheric and poetic photographs by Dimas Melfi. An artist who works across genres including illustration and textiles and a trained architect and designer.
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Hernan Paganini II

There is a frantic vibrancy to these works by Hernan Paganini, a storm of colour and a turbulent amassing of shape and texture resulting from painstaking work and patience.