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Ever since she was a little girl she felt the urge to draw everything around her. At the age of twelve, her parents decided to enroll her into the academy of fine arts where she was thoroughly educated in the art of drawing and sculpting.

When Christiane reached the age of seventeen, she decided to try her luck in the city of Antwerp and enjoyed three years of education at SISA, where she devoted herself to Decor, publicity and nature drawings.
After successfully completing those years, Christiane proudly enrolled herself into the Royal Academy of Antwerp, where she would follow two years of life drawing and familiarize herself further with the technique of oil on canvas.
In 1986 Christiane married her first husband and moved to the city of Keulen in Germany, where she would stay for the next six years. During the last two years of her stay, her work was constantly on display at the renowned ‘Gallerie des beaux art’. From there on, some of her work even reached Egypt and Liverpool.
Alas, when Christiane returned to Belgium, many years followed in which she was forced to take on numberless commissions, many of them reproductions.
When she look back at those tiresome years, during which Christiane often felt herself under incredible pressure and even, at times, uninspired, she realize they were a necessary part of her artistic journey. After all, it is by taking on all those commissions that she learned to perfect her technique. Christiane really do think she owe her various skills to that endless list of reproductions, strange as it may sound.

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Camilla d’Errico is a product of her split heritage, Italian and Canadian rolled into one: Italian fiestiness, Canadian politeness, and an early addiction to Saturday morning cartoons, comics and manga. Growing up she was more often doodling sexy damsels and dragons on her textbooks than reading them. In 1998 when Camilla first attended her first San Diego Comic Con she realised that a 9–5 day job would kill her and this was what she wanted to do. Thanks to her relentless energy, dedication, and just enough sleep deprivation, she has followed her dream of working creatively for a living.

Camilla’s unique style continues to be in demand and her client list includes Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics, Random House, Tokyopop, Hasbro, Disney, Sanrio, Neil Gaiman and she also works with video game and movie companies on character development. Her own characters and properties, Tanpopo and Helmetgirls, are loved by fans and followers and now inspire Cosplay costumes. She has successfully merchandised and licensed her beautiful artwork across a variety of categories: clothing, stationery and gift, accessories, art prints, etc. and continues to expand her licensing program. Her emotive and eloquent paintings have propelled her to the top of the ranks of the New Contemporary art movement, and she is represented by Opera Gallery of New York.

She is proud to be supported by, and to work with, Vancouver based PacBlue Printing and their team of professionals for all her printing needs.