Kristelle Rodeia’s lines display infinite elegance and a precision sometimes close to hyperrealism. Her compositions are perfectly balanced and her colour palette is always delicate, subtly adjusted to her subjects. Poetry, irony, dreams, humour and eccentricity are carefully distilled in her illustrations. Her proficiency in portraiture and skilled drawing technique bring unexpected sensuality to the flesh of a strawberry, the texture of a piece of cloth, the shadows of leaves on a face… Her inspirations come from scientific illustrations and comics (Charles Burns, Brecht Evens…), as well as Ron Mueck’s sculptures, David Hockney’s paintings, the fairytales of Lewis Caroll and Miyazaki…

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