The Sudden Magical Journey to Enchantment Of A Fantasy Artist

Lillian spending  much of her childhood and teen years in a small town in Greece, she was never aware of   fairies, elves & all this kind of existence. Nobody had ever talk to her about these charming "little people". Even though Greece has been a  land  of  mythology with many Goddesses & Muses, fantasy  has never been available to public at large.  Lillian has been drawing from the moment she learned how to hold a pencil! Back to her childhood, as a lonely child in her family ( 8 years apart from her older sister ), her drawing skills had been developing at an incredible rate by drawing invisible friends to keep her away from that loneliness .

She first studied applied arts  in Greece and after she  graduated from  a University of London with a Bachelor Degree in Art & Design where she specialized in Fashion Technology & Business. Though she did study art first,  she had never considered herself as an artist. She never felt  that  had something to say by painting & drawing a piece of art.

 

Becoming an Entrepnereur

In 2004 Lillian  followed  her present husband  to France first and  later to an Enchanted countryside place around  Switzerland  (Geneva),  where she  currently resides. When she became pregnant, she looked for  answers, in  several parenting magazines  and on the Internet,  to all the questions a  parent  can  have, on how can women leave the workplace when the babies come into their lifes without any financial disaster.  There was  no any useful and organized information that was quickly and easily accessible by mothers,  so Lillian took her first step into the American  "work at home moms" status. She did what all successful entrepreneurs do - she built a parenting resourse with all the information a mother would ask for when she has to choose between  her career and her kids. She reasoned that if she needed comprehensive, easy to use parenting & career  information, so did millions of expectant and new parents, too. Lillian's intuition was right. A Parenting Online  Magazine , Wathmoms.com  was born and so Lillian's son happily started growing  near to her, while his mom was establishing her own  home based company. The magazine launched officially to the english speakers parents readers  with its own domain in 2005  and became popular almost immediately.

 

The birth of Enchanted Studio

Since 2005, Lillian's magazine  has been becoming  bigger and bigger and as it is dedicated to the moms who run or look for a homebased professional occupation, her  artistic background and personality drived her to start an artistic home business too. Lillian is currently resides with her family  in a countryside  house surrounded by an enchanted forest which is a constant source of inspiration to her. Motivated by her love of  nature and heavilly influenced  by many great fantasy artists, she began drawing & painting. She first started creating a small series of  french kid's illustrated books that were distributed  to  kidden gardens but soon after,  with  her husband's support & encouragement,  she followed the same professional path  with other fantasy illustrators  and  in early 2007, she began her first commercial career in fantasy and fairy art by selling her artworks within her first official personal online gallery , Enchanted-Studio.com.

When first Enchanted Studio was launched , Lillian  started taking some personal comissions along with her artworks sales,  but soon after she decided to focus more on her own small business selling products based on her art. However, her fashion studies & work background drived her to start thinking on her own company's  pret-a-porter line & fashion accessories based on her fantasy art.

Basically, the birth of her son  and the  later discovery of  fantasy art  made Lillian  really developpe an incredible passion for it. She has always been into spirituality and mysticism and she is fachinated by  the idea  that  we can not  see everything  & there is more of what we can see. This sort of art brought to her a great believe and a glorious creative imagination. It actually made her way back to her childhood.

Even though she had  taken a number of life drawing classes in the past, she remain for the most part a self-taught artist. She loves watercolor and she constantly read books on several techniques and studies the work of other artists. However, after  struggling to find an approach to her art that speaks to her, she has come into her own style. She also developed  her own way of using  the well known technique of watercolor & salt. She mainly uses watercolor, ink and colored pencil and she plans to explore other mediums such as  acrylics in the very near future. She  does not  keep a sketchbook, neither does a lot of pre-work such as roughs or color studies, and does not ever rework her pieces. When the muse strikes, she usually has a rough idea to what she wants the finished image to look like. Lillian get's her inspiration from almost anything… books, stories, fashion photos & magazines , other artist works, dreaming. She always writing down ideas or collects photos from magazines & books for  her next projects.