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Silja Goetz

SILJA GOETZ
LOCATION: Madrid, Spain
AGE: 32
SPECIALISM: Illustration
WORKS WITH: Pen, brush, ink, cut paper, a scanner and Photoshop

German illustrator Silja Goetz caught our eye with her inventive style, which combines traditional media, photographs and scanned elements with digital manipulation to create rich, organic-looking work. Goetz lives in Madrid, where she works as a freelance editorial illustrator. She has worked on commissions for Nylon, NEON, Marie-Claire and newspaper El Pais, for Barçelona-based fashion house Custo, and even for Eleni’s – the famous bakery in New York.

Goetz’s most ambitious work to date was a mural commissioned for Vienna airport, which stood more than 40 metres wide.

She draws inspiration from the rich visual environment of the Spanish capital, movies, books and what she calls “found objects, such as matchboxes and strange wrapping paper”. She also cites the work of classic book illustrators Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) and Miroslav Sasek, as well as more contemporary artists, such as Sara Fanelli and Jeff Fisher, as influences.

You can find out more about Goetz’s exciting illustration work at www.siljagoetz.com