Isabelle Arsenault

[1][2] In 2005, she won the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration for Le Coeur de Monsieur Gauguin; the text was by Marie-Danielle Croteau.

[1] She won the same award in 2013 for her illustration of the graphic novel Jane, le renard et moi with text by Fanny Britt; this book also won the Joe Shuster Award for outstanding artist, the Prix Bédélys [fr] and the Prix Réal-Fillion [fr][3] and the English translation Jane, the fox and me was named to the New York Times list of the ten best illustrated books for children for 2013.

[5] In 2012, she won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration for Virginia Wolf; Kyo Maclear provided the text.

Instead of opting for hard lines and detailed backgrounds and characters, she often illustrates with an ease of hand, but conveys emotion through these simple images and their text.

[10] Arsenault attributes her style to doodling early drafts as rough as possible, so to understand the overall visual story she wishes to produce.

Arsenault explains in her blog that it grants her a level of freedom that allows for her emotions at the time of finalization to be expressed through her art.