"The constant movement of life inspires me. I see potential for images everywhere. The flight of a bird and the curl of a branch can become the initial forms for my characters. I then start distorting and changing their proportions. Through this process I always seem to keep the image alive. This is, I think, the secret behind my art."

Béatrice Favereau was born in Paris, France where she studied Fine Arts, Illustration, and History of Art. She then began working in advertising agencies. For the past 15 years, she has been living in Montreal and working as a free-lance illustrator. Her excellent drawing skills, her prolific creativity and her catchy style have made her a reliable resource in the graphics industry.

Always curious and eager to discover new technologies, she has been working as an animator for special effects and computer animations for TV, video and cinema. She is now back to her favorite field : printed illustration. All her images are digitally created, using Photoshop, Painter and a stylus tablet.

The humor and elegance of her images, with a certain french flavor make her style so popular.

Her clients include magazines such as Rogers Media, CAA Touring, EnRoute, Clin d’oeil, Chatelaine and Writers Digest, book publishers such as Red Wheel Weiser/Conari Press, Compass Point Books, Cook Communications, UNICEF Canada, Hurtubise, Pierre Tisseyre and Québec/Amérique.