I am a Swedish born children’s book author and illustrator, living and working in New Haven, CT.
In my work, I aim to capture the small in the big and the big in the small.
My source of inspiration come from childhood memories, every day conversations, and working in a museum for many years.I love to draw seemingly insignificant details and imperfections, textures, shadows and acid colored skies.
Watercolor and colored pencils are my main medium, but I also make occasional ink drawings, graphite drawings, and small sculptures in paper clay.
For trade publishing inquiries, please contact Mona Kanin of Great Dog Literary (mona@greatdogliterary.com)
Links to clients, collaborators, and projects:
Guernica Magazine: Girl Gang of Pacific Avenue
Guernica Magazine: Carrot Legs
Awards:
- Winner of the Tassy Walden Award: New Voices in Children’s Literature for Best Illustrated Picture Book: Writer/ Illustrator for the book proposal What is a memory?, 2020
- Artist Fellowship Grant from the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD)/ CT Office of the Arts (COA), 2020
- CT Office of the Arts Regional Initiative Grant 2016 forThe Art of Black Dissent
- Artist Fellowship Grant from the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD)/ CT Office of the Arts (COA), 2012
- Writer’s Grant from the Anglo Swedish Literary Foundation, London, UK, 2007
-Nordplus Diploma Grant in Nordic Philology, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 1999
Plays:
- HOLES at the Roundchappel Gallery, Hackney, London. Production by independent theatre company Poemstomyotherself, 2007
- Sentimental at the Royal Court Theatre, London, as a part of the Young Writers Program, 2001
All illustrations on this site ©Gabriella Svenningsen