Nicoletta Ceccoli

Nicoletta Ceccoli was born in Italy in 1973 and graduated from the Institute of Art (Urbino) in 1995. She lives and works in the Republic of San Marino. She has been working as an illustrator of children’s books since 1995 and has illustrated numerous books with American, British, Italian, French, and Taiwanese publishers.

Cecolli’s illustrations present a surreal world in which tiny, delicate, and ostensibly fragile porcelain dolls turn out to be not so harmless and innocent after all. The longer one scrutinises their lovely features, the clearer it becomes that all pictures are shot through with a kind of ruthlessness inherent in traditional fairy tales.