MA CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATION
VALENTINA MENDICINO
VALENTINA MENDICINO chigaia.blogspot.it Kygaya@gmail.com 0044-755-4760072 (UK) 0039-392-1136261 (IT) I am the result of a pleasant afternoon of love between two high school students in 1982. Since I was a child, during my mum’s lectures at the university, I preferred to draw rather than listen to the lectures of civil law. Jurisprudence wasn’t for me. Then, attending a high school that focused on science, I understood that numbers weren’t for me either. I liked reading comics and children’s books, watching animations and using the computer, and since I had a gift for drawing, I found my path. Attending the European Institute of Design in Milan and graduating in illustration and animation. In 2005 I started to work as a freelance illustrator, gaining experience in advertisement and publishing. Since joining the Plum Pudding illustration Agency in London, specialising in children’s books, my interests began to focus in this direction. I decided to leave Italy and move to study in Cambridge. This experience changed my life and I discovered a new dimension to the art world that I had never known before. The U.K offers me a great opportunity to delve, not just into the world of children’s books and illustration, but also into all the culture and traditions of this country, and I know whatever may be, everyone will live happily ever after!
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