Wendling, Claire

Claire Wendling was in her third year at the Art college in Angoulême when she won the "Alph' Art Avenir" prize in 1989. She participates to the volume 1 of "Enfants du Nil". In 1990 Claire Wendling began her most famous series " The Lights of Amelou " with scenario writer Christophe Gibelin , followed by the best young illustrator prize in 1992 for her magazine covers of “Player One”. Then Wendling works in the USA on the cartoon "Excalibur" for Warner. With her Artbooks : "Desk", "Drawers", "Iguana Bay", Wendling shows that she knows how to handle several graphic kinds, from style "toons" to more classic painting, and several types of universefrom realism to fantasy. After the fantasy, Wendling approaches the eroticism with "Aphrodite" who presents several very sensual illustrations … She( participated in the box collector of Sky doll by illustrating and by putting in page a notebook tribute to Barbucci and Canepa.