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About the
artist :
Estelle Valls de
Gomis is a professional writer, essayist and translator who also,
as an amateur, does illustration, photography and web/graphic design,
all freelance. She also is an emerging publisher who started her own fanzine Le
Calepin Jaune, back in 2003, and more recently entered the world of
professional small publishing with her own house, Le Calepin Jaune
Editions, in 2007.
Her writings were
first published in fanzines back in 1998, and then in professional
publishing houses in 1999. Her main books are two short-story
collections, Des Roses et Des Monstres (first published by
éditions du CoLibris in 2004 and then in an improved version by
éditions Nuit d'Avril in 2007), Le Cabaret Vert (published by
éditions Nuit d'Avril in 2004 and then in an improved version in
2005), a literary essay derived from her doctoral thesis, Le
Vampire au Fil des Siècles (published by éditions Cheminements in
2005), a novel, Les Gentlemen de l'Etrange (published by Le
Calepin Jaune Editions in 2007 and which she also illustrated and
designed) and a poems, short-stories and photography collection Horizon
Motel a tribute to Jim Morrison (published by Le Calepin Jaune Editions in 2007 for which she
also did the bookdesign).
A self-taught
illustrator and photographer, Estelle has also had a few illustrations
and photos published in various fanzines and books, having been chosen
by several major French fantastic and fantasy writers to illustrate some of their texts.
Some of her children's books
art has been published in fairy tales books by Fairytale Pop. Her
illustrations of rock-star Bebe Buell have been chosen to be featured in
a documentary about the singer directed by Spanish company Plural
Entertainment. Estelle's first art-book will be released in France in
2009 by CDS Editions.
More data :
Name : Estelle Valls de Gomis
Age : 35
Status & origins : married / French-born + various European-mixed descent
Languages : French, English/American,
Spanish (bits, understood mostly), Catalan (understood but not spoken)
Occupations : Illustrator,
writer, publisher, translator, amateur photographer, amateur web, book
& graphic designer
Background/Education
: Doctoral degree obtained in 2003 (specialty : English fantastic genre literature
and translation)
Writing style : Fantastic, other genres,
view my bibliography for more details.
Writing since : early childhood, published
(amateur and then professional publications) since 1998
Favorite writers : anything between 1790-1915 mostly,
Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Colette, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Sheridan
Le Fanu, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William
Wordsworth, Charles Bukowski, Jim Morrison and many more
Literary Awards won : First Prize of the
Victorian short-story 2002 for "Un cigare pour Manfred"
("A Cigar for Manfred") by the late CRHV (Holmesian and
Victorian Research Center) / Merlin Award 2007 (Prix Merlin) of
the best short-story for "Circé et la malédiction du Démeter"
("Circe and the curse of the Demeter")
Web design styles : retro, vintage 1950s, Art
Nouveau & Belle Époque, floral, sci-fi and basically any genres required
PC Tools : html, MS FrontPage, MS Word,
Adobe Photoshop, Serif PagePlus, Scribus
Building & running websites since :
2002
Web Awards won : ArtMajeur Silver Award
2004 for my website Count Vardalek's Manor
Doing photography since : 1987 (amateurly), a
book featuring 40 of my photos, Horizon Motel, was issued in December 2007
Cameras : Canon Prima AF-8, Canon EOS
3000V, Canon Digital Ixus 750, single use cameras
Photography styles : (my images are not
digitally modified and I never use filters and effects unless otherwise
stated) landscapes, "skyscapes", nature, flowers, impressions,
atmospheres, still life
Favorite photographers : Shannon Brooke,
Viva Van Story, Frank Lisciandro, Danielle Bedics, Marco Patino, Steve Diet Goedde
Illustrator since :
early childhood,
published (amateur and then professional publications) since 1998
Art styles : Art Nouveau, Fantastic,
Vampiric,
Fantasy, Vintage 1950s Pin-ups, children's book art, Manga, US Comics,
Fashion, Advertising, Character Design
Preferred media
: pencil, biro, ink, markers, gouache, acrylics, watercolors, color
pencils, pastels, Photoshop (rarely)
Preferred paper : Bristol board
Favorite artists : Natalia *Nati*
Pierandrei (she's pure genius !), Aubrey Beardsley, Dite, Ayami Kojima, Natalie Shau, Alan Davis, John Byrne, Jim Lee,
Enki Bilal, Olivia de Berardinis, Alberto Vargas, Erté, Georges Barbier,
Pierre Joseph Redouté, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Alfons Mucha, Salvador Dalí, Richard Gray, Giovanni Boldini, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Edward Robert
Hughes, John William Waterhouse, William Morris... and many more !
Favorite Pin-up girls : Dita Von Teese,
Sabina Kelley, Bernie Dexter, Frankie Sin, Heidi Van Horne and quite a few
others
Professional translator & essayist since :
1998
Publisher (amateur) since : 2003
Publisher (professional) since : 2007
My other websites :
> Le Calepin Jaune
literary & 19th century genre fanzine
> Le Calepin Jaune
Editions : the publishing house I created in 2007
> I also have quite a few other personal websites, some of them
dating back to 2002 (Kingdoms of Estel, Les Roses de Bacchus, Le Boudoir
de la Marquise, The Merry Mouse, Estelle's Pin-ups, Oranji, Vampire
Menuet, Unlikely Designs and Leandre Borgia) but they are temporarily offline and their
url redirects to this site because I chose the simplest
option of putting all my galleries and my complete bibliography on this
one site you are viewing now.
Contact :
e-mail
me personally at webmaster[@]estellevallsdegomis.com
Rates
& Commissions : I'm sorry I am not accepting
free/unpaid requests (no time and most media I use are expensive), I
only work on commission/order. Fell free to contact me.
Originals
& Prints for sale : I sometimes put
art prints (all genres I
do - see above) for sale on my
Etsy page
and also originals, everything I put up for sale is signaled on this very site
Frequently Asked Questions
:
not
available atm
My online
Portfolios & Profiles : Ultra-Book,
Carbonmade, Creative
Hub, Portfolios, DeviantArt,
Myspace (my page is back),
Retrokitten,
Kind
Industries, LiveJournal,
Facebook,
Illustration
Mundo, Blogspot
and
Viadeo
+ Susu from Paris
and Susu
from Paris on myspace
My banner
: feel free to
link me (sorry I don't take link exchange)
Links :
Artists, Photographers, Writers & Publishers,
Pin-ups
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supports : feel free to have a
look at the causes we support
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