Mathilde Poncet

Autrice, illustrator, Mathilde Poncet was born in 1993. She studied for three years at the École supérieure d'Art de Lorraine in Épinal, then in Metz, from where she graduated in 2016. She now lives near a lake in the Jura.

Inspired by European and Japanese folklore, animals and mountains, she builds her colourful images with layers of coloured pencils, pastels or ink to give substance to mischievous, strange and sometimes dark stories. Deep lakes, quests and storms are often depicted.

She regularly intervenes in schools to explain her profession and also leads engraving workshops. With their hands in contact with the ink, the children are delighted to turn the wheels of the press. 

His first album Chipie takes off... published by Agrume éditions, was released in May 2017. She is also the illustrator of the book Les Sentiers perdus by Stéphanie Demasse-Pottier (September 2018 at Hélium éditions).

His latest album, Des vacances timbrées (published by Les Fourmis rouges, June 2020) is an invitation to travel in a universe that is both familiar and phantasmagorical, where the everyday rubs shoulders with the grandiose.