BIOGRAPHY
My work is a fusion of collected found
materials, various painting- and drawing
techniques and digital elements.
I approach my illustrations and toys as a
quilter combining recycled elements with
modern technology.
materials, various painting- and drawing
techniques and digital elements.
I approach my illustrations and toys as a
quilter combining recycled elements with
modern technology.
Suana Verelst est née à Anvers en Belgique et habite maintenant à Montréal. Elle a grandi à Courtrai, une ville belge près de la frontière française. Elle a étudié le dessin et la peinture à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de St.-Niklaas avant de venir au Canada. À Montréal, elle a fait des études en histoire de l'art, étudié les beaux-arts et le design graphique.
Elle a illustré plusieurs livres pour enfants au Québec, en Belgique et aux États-Unis.
Récemment, deux de ses illustrations ont été récompensées par l’Applied Arts Magazine, à Toronto, et l’American Illustration and American Photography en a choisi deux autres pour leur site web à New York. (AI-AP 25 et AI-AP 26).
Ses œuvres ont été exposées à la Foire du livre jeunesse de Bologne, en Italie, à Ronse, en Belgique, et à New York lors du 4th Annual New York Showcase Children’s Book Art Exhibition.
Suana Verelst was born in Antwerp, Belgium and currently lives in Montreal. She grew up in Kortrijk, a Belgian town close to the French border. She studied drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Niklaas before leaving for Canada to study Art History, Fine Arts and Graphic Design.
She has collaborated on children's books and illustrated a few which were published in Quebec, Belgium and the USA and received an award for two illustrations she submitted to “Applied Arts Magazine” in Toronto, Canada and most recently two of her illustrations were chosen to be permanently displayed on the website of “American Illustration and American Photography” in New York. (AI-AP 25 and AI-AP 26).
Her illustrations were exhibited at the Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy, as part of the Flemish illustrator's exhibit, at “Picturale”, a group exhibition of Flemish illustrators in Ronse, Belgium and at a group exhibition of children’s book illustrators at the “4th Annual New York Showcase Children’s Book Art Exhibition” in New York City.
Some of her clients: Unicef [Switzerland], Renault [France], De Standaard [Belgium], Cego [Belgium], La Presse [Quebec] Editons Chouette [Quebec], Studio Duotone [Quebec], Baron Sports [Quebec], Azro press [US], InSight Mag [US], ..