Colombian illustrator based in NYC. Amalia has an MFA in illustration from Savannah College of Art and design. Her work varies from children’s book illustration, to editorial, licensing and motion. She has been winner of The A’Design Award, The Brightness Award, The Red Dot Communication Design Award and the Perro de Plata Award. Her work has been published in books like La Bicicleta, País de los Sueños, Con los Pelos de Punta and video clips and short films like Giraluna and Dreamsheep, among others.

For me, illustrating is a way of understanding and connecting to my own reality. I recognize illustration as a universal language, where the meaning is not always on the surface, but the message is always there. The majority of my work is an exploration of extremes, testing how much I can push an image in terms of proportion, scale, unusual combinations, and sometimes nonsensical scenarios in order to deliver a message. I try to evoke dreams, magic, nostalgia, and a sense of strange familiarity, similar to the sense of returning to your childhood home, or a smell that transports you back in time