Photo: Joost van Asch
Anouk van Esch is an illustrator, community muralist and color-fanatic.
Working between illustration, murals and visual storytelling, she builds playful worlds from bold shapes, flowy characters and bright colors, exploring what it means to be human and how to navigate life on our world.
Anouk specialises in working with groups. She is a community muralist, as she likes to call it: having the people work with her on the concept of the mural she makes, makes sure that the finished mural will also be theirs to cherish.
Her work is driven by curiosity and a fascination with everyday life: the funny, uncomfortable, chaotic and beautiful moments that usually pass by unnoticed. She turns these observations into visual stories that capture true stories and real emotions.
She is also inspired by things that bring her joy in everyday life, for example nature, ice cream, confetti, dinosaurs, cool boots and stroopwafels (a dutch cookie filled with syrup). She likes to wear colorful pants with unique designs, that is why she is also known as leuke broek Anouk (translates to: pretty pants Anouk, but it ryhmes way nicer in Dutch!)
Photo: Willeke Machiels
Who trusted me already:
TBV Wonen
Buro Binnenstad Tilburg
Graphic Art Market Tilburg
Illustrada festival
Playgrounds The Art Department
St.Joost School of Art & Design Breda
Stedelijk museum Breda
Nieuwe veste Breda
Uitgeverij Delubas