ABOUT ME

I’m a freelance illustrator from Barcelona who now lives and works surrounded by the tramuntana wind, cypress trees, and silence in the Alt Empordà region.

I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. As a child, I would fill the margins of my notebooks with monsters, astronauts, and knights in armor. I was the teacher’s nightmare: my schoolbooks were fuller of drawings than texts. A math formula? An episode from a medieval war? The orbit of a planet? Everything was the perfect excuse to grab a pencil and draw.

It was only natural that I went on to study Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. I spent my fifth year at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, thanks to an Erasmus scholarship (rain, pubs, and lots of ink). After that, I crossed the Atlantic to do a master’s degree in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts of New York, where I learned all the secrets of the profession — and also how to survive on coffee and impossible deadlines.

Back in Barcelona, I worked for a while in advertising, but the pencil kept calling me, and it wasn’t long before I took the plunge and became a freelancer. Since then, I’ve worked for publishers, magazines, advertising agencies, companies, and institutions here and there. My illustrations have appeared in publications such as The New York Times and books by Penguin Random House, Phaidon, Cambridge University Press, and Richmond Publishing, among others.

I also exhibit my more personal work from time to time – the kind that’s born without a commission and without hurry.

And every now and then, I get good news in the form of awards or recognitions that give me a small boost: finalist at the World Illustration Awards and the Premis Junceda, winner of contests like A Taste of France (French Government Tourist Office of New York), Participa Méliès (Caixaforum), Create Art for the film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Warner Bros), Vídeo de l’estiu (TV3, Televisió de Catalunya), and the Llamps i Tintes, comic and graphic novel competition.

I work both by hand and digitally, and I love when a line manages to retain a bit of human soul. I’m happy when an illustration makes someone smile, think, or simply pause to look at it. Every assignment is like an open door, inviting me to play, explore, and tell stories through images.

Right now, from my studio near the sea, I keep drawing just like when I was a child… only now, no one scolds me for doing it in the margins of a book.