Maryam Mahmoudiseraji is a Rome, Italy based illustrator. She is interested in working on fiction and non-fiction picture books. She worked as an illustrator with some Persian publications even when she emigrated and now she would like to communicate with the whole world with her illustrations. Her unpublished picture book is chosen by the juries of DPICTUS showcase 4 for the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2023.
As illustration is everything to her and nothing is more enjoyable to her than that, she has attempted to reach her own unique style step by step and day by day and she is still working on it. The techniques she has used are digital illustration, print on the fabrics and markers depending on the type of projects, stories and audiences. She would love the sense of printmaking through her digital illustrations that she has usually shown by transparent colors, the use of different layers on top of each other and they make her style unique and personal. Additionally, she sometimes uses only erasers to show the sense of linoleum print in some of her digital illustrations.
Furthermore, she has an interest in showing children a world full of happiness and joy. In fact, in her books; she tends to show children how to enjoy their life with the little things they have and teaches them that with all the problems we are struggling with in the world, life can be sweet and beautiful. She is going to teach them to make the world better, not worse.
One of her interesting hobbies is walking and looking at people's treats and characters. She takes inspiration from people and children around her and uses them in her illustrations.
In addition, she would like to imagine herself in most of her illustrations to show she is present in her stories.
