Violeta Monreal (www.violetamonreal.com) was born in Oviedo. After she graduated in Fine Arts, began his career as an illustrator. He traveled to New York where she helped to U.N. in the illustration of various projects and also designed some tarot decks. Since then, her books are continuously published in major Spanish publishers, more than a hundred have been written by herself. Many of her books have been published also in the U.S., Japan, Korea, France, Portugal, Italy, Greece and in several Latin American countries.
Along with her work as an illustrator and author of children stories, Violeta also works as lecturer and specialist in children's drawing. Specialized institutions, local authorities and schools, as well as several publishing houses, have repeatedly invited her to participate in different lecture series and to coordinate practical and theoretical workshops promoting creativity of teachers and students in Spain and another countries.
In addition, she imagines and creates publishing projects in her studio coordinating text and images to create collections of books in collaboration with different publishers.
Her style and technique, especially the collages, are easily recognizable, and gives her work a genuine personality that resists comparisons.
Violeta has fairy hands and heart of a child. Thats why she has such an empathy with the kids, who listen spellbound b…
