Agnès Hostache presents her graphic novel "E.1027", based upon Eileen Gray's villa

Agnès Hostache uses both words and illustrations to tell her stories. An observant person with a curious and attentive eye, she takes a keen interest in the people and places around her. Whether illustrating in colour or linework, Hostache captures the little things in life, fleeting moments full of tiny details that usually escape us but which say so much about our lives. The bristles of her brush are soaked with fantasy, tenderness and an infinite serenity that one yearns to cherish forever.

Trained in graphic design, illustration, and later, spatial design, Hostache spent the first eight years of her career in major advertising agencies as a graphic designer and artistic director, followed by 12 years in an interior design agency.

In 2015, she decided to fully dedicate herself to illustrating and writing comic books on a freelance basis, a decision that soon paid off, as she quickly signed her first publishing deal with the Lézard Noir publishing house to release her first graphic novel, Nagasaki. After being officially selected for the Grand Jury Prize at the Angoulême festival, the FBDM in Montreal and the Landerneau prize from the Édouard Leclerc foundation, she received the ADAGP - Quai Des Bulles revelation prize for Nagasaki.

She then followed up with E.1027, a poetic and colourful tribute to the designer and architect Eileen Gray, and her modernist villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.