Artists

JAN BAJTLIK

Jan Bajtlik is an artist born in 1989 in Warsaw, specializing in painting, drawing, and design. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. The artist has won numerous awards at national and international competitions, and in 2015, he received a special award from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland for his artistic and educational activities raising children's awareness of art-related issues. Since 2016, he has regularly collaborated with Hermès and continues his personal artistic work in parallel.

ALICE RICARD

Alice Ricard is a French illustrator and artist, a graduate of Penninghen in Paris. Passionate about Japanese culture, she brings visual narratives to life where poetry and modernity intertwine. Moving between tradition and contemporary expression, she draws inspiration from nature, folklore, and travel. Her work creates dreamlike and melancholic atmospheres, inhabited by fantastical animals and imaginary landscapes, touched with a hint of surrealism.

KLARA KRISTALOVA

Klara Kristalova was born in Prague, in former Czechoslovakia, in 1967, and moved to Sweden with her parents when she was just one year old. She studied at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and currently lives in Norrtälje, Sweden. Created in glazed ceramic, Klara Kristalova's figures manage to convey human emotions such as fear, love, sadness, and guilt that emerge from her work like memories of our own childhood.

AURORE DE LA MORINERIE

Aurore de la Morinerie is a French artist and illustrator who lives and works in Paris. She works with materials, tools, surfaces, layering, and color, reflecting the richness and diversity of flora and fauna. Inspired by the hummingbird, Aurore has had many opportunities to study and draw it, and it was she who proposed creating a work to illustrate the legend. It is a story that reflects who she is and that she embodies perfectly.

PANGEA

Pangea is the story of two creators, long-time friends, Laetitia Rouget and Colombine Jubert, who met during their studies at Central Saint Martins College in London. During the first lockdown, they envisioned a utopian society, a desirable future that is poetic and borderless. The name "Pangea" refers to the supercontinent that assembled all landmasses 200 million years ago. Somewhere between art, design, and performance, Pangea’s creations serve as both symbols and messages, inviting the viewer to mentally create their own utopia. As part of the collaboration with Une histoire au mur, Laetitia Rouget and Colombine Jubert chose Paul Éluard’s poem Freedom, which echoes the freedom and imagination that embody their creative approach. A bird in the sky, a flight, a universal message. Pangea’s work, like an ode to resilience, celebrates freedom in all its joy, carrying within it the values of courage, solidarity, and openness to the world.

PRUNE NOURRY

Prune Nourry is a French artist living between New York and Paris. In 2012, inspired by the famous soldiers of Xi'an (China), the artist created 8 sculptures, "the Terracotta Daughters," including the one illustrating here, The Legend of Mulan. This army of girls questions the cultural preference for boys, which remains rooted in many countries. Associating this piece with the legendary Legend of Mulan seemed obvious to us as a way to embody the symbol of a strong, courageous, and independent woman.

IRINA RASQUINET

Born in 1974 in Kizliar, in the North Caucasus, her journey is marked by uprooting: forced to flee the Chechen war, she settled in France in 1997. This trajectory fuels her artistic perspective, infusing her work with a particular focus on neglected materials and remnants that become sources of rebirth. The legend of the two jars perfectly illustrates Irina's artistic philosophy, which sees cracks as a source of creation and unexpected beauty. Through her works, she invites us, like the water carrier of the legend, to perceive the hidden value of imperfection and fragility. In both the story and Irina’s work, cracks let the light in, and apparent flaws transform into creative rebirth.

CHRISTIANE POOLEY

Christiane Pooley is a Chilean artist living in Paris. Shaped by a violent territorial conflict in southern Chile, her work explores the complexities of origin and belonging. Through her paintings, she creates poetic and liminal spaces that blur the boundary between reality and dream, evoking the ephemeral nature of human experience with haunting beauty. In the work created for Une Histoire au Mur, illustrating Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem “If—”, the figure blends into the landscape. The desert-like emptiness facing the young man invites us to contemplate the horizon. It symbolizes the path to be traveled—without a clearly defined route—toward becoming “a man,” thus echoing Kipling’s poem “If—”.

EUGÉNIE BACHELOT-PRÉVERT

Eugénie Bachelot Prévert, granddaughter of poet Jacques Prévert, offers a new perspective on "Le Cancre" for Une histoire au mur. Graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2000, this artist born in 1974 has always sought to preserve spontaneity and freedom in her art, qualities so dear to childhood. She smiles at the irony that this poem celebrating a rebellious child has become a school classic, sometimes even a source of punishment for those who struggle to memorize it. Inspired by her experience of sharing drawings with her friends from the Beaux-Arts, Eugénie interpreted the poem with her daughter Lila. They chose to depict two women who seem to be in the midst of a whirlwind and to do only what they please. This approach, both respectful of her family heritage and deeply personal, perfectly reflects her artistic journey, where painting, installations, and performances blend together, always with that touch of joyful irreverence that characterizes her popular and free-spirited art.