ILLUSTRATION

Lucille Clerc is a French illustrator, based in London. She holds a DSAA in visual communication (ENSAAMA - Olivier de Serres,Paris) and a Masters in Communication Design (Central Saint Martins, London). She works mainly for the press and publishing and regularly on a larger scale for the creation of textile patterns and murals. She specialises in making hand drawings, developed into screen printing in her personal work, to create large-scale compositions, architectural portraits of her favourite places and explore their past and present lives. Her favourite themes are the city and Nature and their sometimes symbiotic / sometimes antagonistic relationships. She develops these subjects in opulent narrative compositions filled with decorative and architectural details observed on site, with tones inspired by Nature and with a myriad of details that the viewer explores like a territory.

Her images require time, precision, meticulousness, and they also require time to be appreciated, a certain state of abandonment and daydreaming. Everything is drawn by hand on a large scale, sometimes in one piece, sometimes in fragments that can be put together. The techniques used to print them allow a direct relationship with the medium (screen printing, engraving, cyanotype) which allows her to be autonomous in her productions and allows her a lot of experimentation and freedom.