About the Artists

Victoria Fomina (The Cats' Museum) has illustrated over 50 books for leading publishers, from classic fairy tales and novels to biographies of the great composers.

Her interests include painting, design, and illustration. She has received numerous prizes in illustration competitions around the world.

Naive, folksy, but with a classical edge, Victoria Fomina’s paintings make viewers want to "jump down the rabbit hole with her into a charmingly surreal world of detail and color, crafted in the artist’s unique style." 

Juliana Kolesova (The Happiest Christmas Tree Ever) is a brilliantly gifted artist and Illustrator with over 20 years of experience. Born in Kazakhstan, she graduated from the Moscow School of Art. She had a successful career as an art director of one of the most popular magazines in Russia and has worked as an illustrator with the largest book publisher in North America.

Juliana has received many awards in the field of design, illustration, and photography, and she is the creator of more than a thousand illustrations and book covers.

Claudia Gadotti was born in Trento, Italy. She has always been a book lover and always wanted to be an illustrator. She has a degree in Fine Arts with a major in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has lived in London, California and now resides in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband and their two dogs, Bruno and Bow.