Quentin Gréban

Quentin Gréban has made gentleness his signature style. Both humans and animals are depicted expressively in situations where humor arises from everyday life, children’s little quirks, and the relationships between the characters. His large watercolor illustrations, always in pastel shades, offer a tender and poetic perspective.

To preserve your works on paper, we recommend that you never expose them to direct light, as UV rays can damage the mediums used. Paintings made with pastel or charcoal require special care to avoid rubbing. Works containing watercolor are particularly sensitive to light, unlike gouache and acrylic.
We advise you to display them away from windows, and to use frames made from pH-neutral conservation materials and “Museum” glass with anti-UV and anti-reflective treatment. If you prefer to keep your works unframed, we recommend storing them flat, in drawing cartons, with sheets of pH-neutral permanent paper in between. Keep them away from light and humidity.

Quentin Gréban discovered a passion for drawing at an early age, encouraged by his father and initially drawn to portraiture. He studied illustration at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels and published his first album with Mijade just a few months after graduating in 1999. From the very beginning, his illustrations attracted attention: selected for the Bologna Annual in 1999 for his artwork on Nils Holgersson, he won the Saint-Exupéry Prize in 2000 for Les Contes de l’alphabet (The Alphabet Tales), and was subsequently included in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s annual selection on several occasions. Staying true to his technique of watercolor over pencil sketches, he draws inspiration from Edmond Dulac, Rebecca Dautremer, Édouard Manet and Liesbeth Zwerger, blending classic fairy tales – such as those by Andersen and Grimm – with more personal stories. A prolific artist, he has published and illustrated nearly seventy children’s books, which have been translated into numerous languages and distributed throughout Europe. As the father of three daughters, he also draws on his family life for the material of his bedtime stories, which range from made-up tales to adaptations read aloud. Complete biography.