Illustration: Violeta Lopiz charms our socks off with her gorgeous work

Date
25 July 2013

There’s something unassuming about illustration for children’s books that makes the work 100 times more appealing. Or at least that’s definitely true of Violeta Lopiz, whose stunning illustrations for Elise Fontenaille’s Les Poings sur les Iles are enchanting on their own merit, let alone when you match them with a story about a young boy playing amont the flowers and birds in his ever-present grandfather’s garden. Violeta’s rich, painterly style, and the semi-transparency of different layers (appearing almost to move over one another) gives the book a magical resonance in which the huge hands of the grandfather play the part of a caring overseer. Capturing the juxtaposition of naive, awestruck childhood and the watchful but invisible elderly man perfectly, the images become entirely non-specific in their appeal.

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Violeta Lopiz: Les Poings sur les Iles

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Violeta Lopiz: Les Poings sur les Iles

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Violeta Lopiz: Les Poings sur les Iles

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Violeta Lopiz: Les Poings sur les Iles

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Violeta Lopiz: Les Poings sur les Iles

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Violeta Lopiz: Les Poings sur les Iles

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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