Valeria Petrone
Valeria Petrone is an award-winning illustrator living between Milan and Rome, but she grew up professionally in London, where she started illustrating her first children’s books. Since 1988, she has published over forty titles in the United States, France, UK, Italy, Poland, Spain, Germany, and Korea. Her work ranges from children's literature to illustrations for advertising, book covers, packaging, digital apps, animations, newspapers and magazines, and has been selected and featured in the annual Society of Illustrators’s annual in New York, American Illustration, Communication Arts. In 2015 her app Goodnight Dadà, made in collaboration with Studio Elastico, received the Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award and the Andersen Prize. November 2015 saw the release of the awarded animated feature film “Fearless child” (dedicated to Iqbal Masih) for which she designed the dreams of the leading character. She also pursues a career as a painter and her artworks have been exhibited in Italy and abroad.
She grew up admiring the work of Richard Scarry, Tony Ross, Edward Gorey, Saul Steinberg, Bruno Munari, Alexander Girard as well as Giotto, Picasso, David Hockney, and Henri Rousseau, and has a passion for hairy and feathered creatures, masks and kokeshi dolls.
Click here to read Valeria's Mini Proust Q&I (Question and Illustration) inspired by the Proust Questionnaire.
