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Rosalie Lanteigne is an illustrator and graphic designer. She creates visual narratives rich in symbols and emotions to connect people with themselves and nature. Her style is characterized by organic and colorful illustrations, often featuring female characters. She draws inspiration from nature, human interactions, and values such as kindness, solidarity, and wonder to create gentle and memorable pieces. Driven by a desire to make a social impact, her creations address environmental conservation, gender equality, and personal development.

Emcie Turineck, artist name Spll Girl, is a Montreal-based disabled artist working primarily in digital illustration. With a strong sensibility for narrative, Emcie creates highly emotive characters and scences distinguished by vibrant colours, subject matter and movement. They received a degree in Art Education and a BFA from Concordia university and are now working as an illustrator, focussed on editorial works, collaborations, poster design, and paper window displays. Their process is fueled by their affinity for humour, greif, magic, and honesty, and as a result they explore both difficult and playful subjects. Emcie loves to create bold and bright pieces, hoping to reach people and their stories through illustration. 

Corbo was made in France and built in Canada, where he has been currently running around in the small village of Montreal.

In 2022, he left the brutal world of concrete and striped ties to launch full-time into the world of flowery landscapes and colored pencils.

Fond of puns, he likes to juggle with the dictionary and mix expressions to the rhythm of his brushes in order to put a delicate smile and lightness on your face. 

Paige Walshe is a comic artist and illustrator based in Montreal, Canada. She has a BFA from Concordia University’s painting and drawing program with a minor in film animation. Her comics include Froggy! A Pond Full of Pals  (Flying Eye Books, 2025) and Lemons (Webtoon Heart Anthology, 2020), as well as various webcomics.

She aims to capture simple joys with her animal illustrations. Scenes are full of details to show their lives are full of warmth, curiosity, whimsy, and loved ones with whom to share it all.

Shelley’s illustrations have been published in zines and participated in exhibitions. She has collaborated in several creative projects and wishes to inject her unique vision into more art mediums in the future.

Simon is a queer French and Canadian illustrator of Chinese descent, living in Montreal. He creates cozy, hand-drawn illustrations inspired by everyday life, travel, and his cultural roots. His work blends gentle humour, warm textures, and editorial storytelling to reflect queer love, identity, and the small moments that make us feel at home.

Naomi Poirier is a painter based in Québec City. She did not come to art through a straight path but by following her own curiosity. Painting started as something private, a way to slow down and notice the small details of life. Over time it became more than that. It became a way for her to understand the world and share her vision with others. At the beginning of 2024, she decided to quit her full-time office job to pursue her art career full-time.

Her work is inspired by the everyday. Naomi is drawn to familiar objects and ordinary moments, the ones that often go unnoticed. A table set for a meal, the changing light in a room, the quiet rhythm of daily life are the scenes that spark her imagination. On the canvas they are transformed into colorful compositions full of warmth and intimacy.

What matters to her is not grand stories but the small joys. Her paintings hold on to details that might seem simple yet carry emotion and memory. Each piece offers a pause, a sense of comfort and sometimes even a spark of nostalgia. They are meant to bring brightness into homes and lives and to remind people that beauty is always close by.

Over the years Naomi has grown her practice, sharing her work through exhibitions, collaborations and with those who collect her paintings and prints. For her, painting is both a personal need and a way of connecting with others. Through it she celebrates the overlooked and gives shape to the meaning found in ordinary life.

Mélissa, also known as Oraculum, navigates the art and cultural landscape as an illustrator, art director, graphic designer, and visual artist. A graduate in Visual and Media Arts as well as Graphic Design from UQAM, she cultivates a multidisciplinary practice where instinct, emotion, and graphic composition converge.

Maggie Zeng is a Montreal-based children’s book illustrator, concept artist, and animator. With an interest in light and shadow, Maggie loves making whimsical story-driven illustrations that convey a feeling of adventure and wonder through fun characters and magical environments. She is the illustrator of the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award winning book “This Is The Boat That Ben Built,” and her short film “Itch” has screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival, winning the silver Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation. Her favourite pencil was a 0.9mm Staedtler Mars micro that someone stole from her during her first year of high school. (She bought a second one.)

Camille Sarradet is a tattoo artist and illustrator born in Montreal. A barista and cat lady in her spare time, her illustrations reflect, with simplicity and lightness, the worries and small pleasures of life, her love of wine and coffee, and the ups and downs of everyday life.

Through her drawings, she wants the characters that populate her universe to be relatable to everyone through their uniform features and similar profiles. Always in action, they tell us a slice of life, their feelings of the moment, and the thoughts that inhabit them.

Lottie is an illustrator and 2D animator from Montréal. As a child, she dreamt of making cartoons, but her adult self could not take the rigidity of that industry she worked so hard to join. So, she went her own way, creating self-indulgent illustrations of comfort. Lottie is mainly inspired by her memories of childhood: foods, toys and small creatures. She loves to play and experiment with colour, texture and mediums, which makes every piece different from the next.

Jenny Bien-Aimé is a first-generation Haitian illustrator based in Montreal.
Her work consists of exploring the human experience by conveying a dream-like atmosphere through the use of light, colours, attention to the littlest details and composition.

Her goal is to tell stories that go in depth into the psychological character exploration found in storytelling and world building while still keeping a relaxed environment. She takes her inspiration primarily from nature and the people in it.

Sara Mizannojehdehi is an illustrator and writer fascinated by a sense of place, or the feeling of comfort and inclusion one experiences when they connect with a space. While she's only lived in Montreal for two and a half years, completing her master's in journalism, Sara has found a muse within her evolving sense of place in the city, her explorations, and the people she's met. Her personal work explores walking, journeying, documenting the details of the mundane, and viewing how one's perception can evolve through experiences and time. Beyond personal work, she has freelanced for places such as the Narwhal, Montreal Gazette, and Maisonneuve Magazine.