Dorothea Renault. Illustrations in the City, featuring more Joseph Pearson.

Dorothea Renault was born in Germany and currently lives near Paris, where she studied advanced graphic and visual art.

After having started work as a freelance art director, she started to focus on illustration in 2000. Her interpretation of women has been shown in collaboration with clients like L’Oreal, Printemps, Burton, Nivea, Gemey-Maybelline, Bourjois, and Musée Galliera de la Mode in Paris.

I like the combination of the grey sketchy background drawing with the sharper, colourful figure or topic of focus in the foreground. With the agency Harrison-Wolf, she created a large illustration in 2006, which covered the whole building of the Société Générale headquarters in Paris. Recently, her illustrations decorated the windows of Printemps for the campaign “Young Married Couple”

 

Her work has triggers for me for both Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Sex and the City , and the word sophistication comes through strongly.

Dorothea also responded to my question as to whether anyone knew any more about illustrator Joseph Pearson whom I’d blogged about recently. She had come across his work in another cook book belonging to her mum. She kindly sent me over some examples so that we can all enjoy them.

Many thanks Dorothea, keep up the great work and I’ll be featuring more of Joseph Pearson’s work from the Betty Crocker cook book soon.