Illustrator · Author · Artist
Ravid Shirazi is an illustrator and a storytelling artist. She watches people, the relationships between characters and their inner worlds, and tells them in a rich visual language, full of humour and imagination.
Pl. 12 · Moon Light Tea, a picture bookfrom Picture books
Foreword
I work in three worlds woven into one another: art, illustration and writing1. What I bring is the meeting of a classical art training3, years in art psychotherapy2 and a storyteller’s way of thinking, which lets me build visual worlds of their own.
Word & imageAs an author-illustrator, text and pictures are made together, so each page carries what the other leaves unsaid.
Inner lifeArt psychotherapy taught her how children and adults process experience through images.
Hand & techniquePencil, charcoal, watercolour, ink and digital drawing.
Seven chapters, from the books to the exhibitions. Choose one to open it.
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10 platesThree of Ravid’s picture books, with covers, title pages, spreads and preparatory drawings. Open a book to leaf through it.
Personal project · watercolour
An idea for the front and back covers, and a search for the style of the spreads: a cup of tea, a full moon and the night creatures who gather around it.
About Ravid
“My work was born from a wish to tell a story.”
Ravid has a professional background in art psychotherapy. It accompanies her work, and the sensitive way she looks at the life around her.
Colophon · for publishers, editors, agents and collectors
Ravid takes on a small number of book projects and commissions each year. Tell her about yours.
Studio letters
New books, artwork and prints, and exhibitions. A few letters a year, nothing more.
מכתבים מהסטודיו
ספרים חדשים, עבודות אמנות והדפסים ותערוכות. כמה מכתבים בשנה, לא יותר.
