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An illustration of a cross-section of a building, showing several floors of open-plan offices. Small figures move between desks, plants and lounge areas in a palette of deep blue, green and yellow.

Illustration: Fast-paced watercolour cities form French illustrator Mugluck

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Date
16 July 2013

French-born Montreal-based illustrator Mugluck makes phenomenally stylised watercolour compositions that are blistering with fast line work and strong, decisive mark making. She’s especially gifted when it comes to creating urban landscapes and unusual topographies, capturing the rat-race of tiny people and miniature vehicles bustling about in a towering skyline. More impressively she also creates live work performing alongside musicians to create large-scale canvases of graphic systems that represent the audio soundtrack with structures not unlike a musical score. Whether it’s figurative or abstract work that really excites you, Mugluck’s got something for everyone.

An illustration of various figures in swimwear, arranged in a grid against a white background. The figures are shown in a series of fragmented, fluid poses as if swimming or diving.
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Mugluck: Swimming Pool

An illustration of 35 stylised figures arranged in a grid on a white background. The figures are rendered in bright washes of red, yellow and blue, shown in various active poses.
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Mugluck: Swimming Pool

An illustration of a bean-shaped swimming pool filled with blue water and several swimmers. Two diving boards extend into the pool from opposite sides.
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Mugluck: Swimming Pool

An illustration of people swimming in a pool, rendered as a mosaic of blue and white squares. Several figures with red hair float or dive through the geometric water.
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Mugluck: Swimming Pool

An illustration of a congested city highway filled with colourful cars and buses. The road curves past a row of green trees and leads onto a suspension bridge, with a cluster of tall buildings to the left.
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Mugluck: Pont Jacques Cartier, Montréal, 2013

An illustration of a dense city seen from above, with red and blue buildings surrounding a central green space. The park is filled with stylised trees that drip downwards like paint, contrasting with the surrounding grid of colourful cars.
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Mugluck: Parc Lafontaine, Montréal, 2013

An illustration of a cross-section of a city building at night. The interior reveals several floors of cluttered rooms and offices, with a person standing outside a shop on the ground floor. Red cars are parked on the street under a glow of yellow light.
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Mugluck: Place des Arts, Montréal, 2013

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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