Presentation
An exhibition devoted to the work of Eve Tharlet is being hosted by Huberty & Breyne gallery to coincide with the Children’s Book Fair and Youth Press in Montreuil and will run until the 30th of December.
Tharlet’s visual universe is constantly evolving. The children’s illustrator and comic book artist has some strong convictions – a product of her time spent studying at the Decorative Arts School in Strasbourg. “An image must speak for itself,” she insists. “It shouldn’t need a manual.
We should be able to grasp it at once.” And whether she is following a text loosely and fleshing out the details herself or staying as close as possible to an author’s characters and portraying how they are feeling and behaving – joy, fear, deceitfulness, etc – Tharlet’s aim is to use her pencil “to recapture the feelings of childhood”.
This “furious tinkerer”, as she describes herself, spends her free time doing up houses and hates the idea of becoming stuck with a particular style or technique, being pigeonholed – which is maybe why she has also been producing comic strips for the last ten years. Her series Monsieur Blaireau et Madame Renarde, with texts by Brigitte Luciani, is, as it happens, due to be adapted for the French TV network France 5 in 2018.
