Claude K. Dubois

With her unrivalled, gentle graphic style, Claude K. Dubois succeeds in conveying a whole range of emotions with great accuracy. Very similar in style to Gabrielle Vincent’s illustrations, Claude K. Dubois’s artwork appeals to all ages thanks to its simplicity and evocative power. A must-read.

To preserve your works on paper, we recommend that you never expose them to direct light, as UV rays can damage the mediums used. Paintings made with pastel or charcoal require special care to avoid rubbing. Works containing watercolor are particularly sensitive to light, unlike gouache and acrylic.
We advise you to display them away from windows, and to use frames made from pH-neutral conservation materials and “Museum” glass with anti-UV and anti-reflective treatment. If you prefer to keep your works unframed, we recommend storing them flat, in drawing cartons, with sheets of pH-neutral permanent paper in between. Keep them away from light and humidity.

Born in 1960 in Verviers, Claude K. Dubois is a Belgian author and illustrator who trained at the École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc in Liège, where she now teaches illustration. Since the late 1980s, she has produced around a hundred children’s picture books, mainly for L’École des loisirs, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her wonderfully gentle watercolours convey tenderness, emotions and inner life, always with a sense of shared understanding and beyond the reach of words. Together with the Belgian author Carl Norac, she has created around fifteen picture books, including Les Mots doux (1996), which won the Prix des Bibliothèques de France. In 2012, she published Akim court, a picture book about a child fleeing war, supported by Amnesty International and awarded the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2014. As a painter and sculptor, she also exhibits her artwork in Belgium and abroad. Complete biography