Cyprus-based illustrator, Anna Kövecses has amassed quite a following. With commissions from media outlets as big as the BBC, The New York Times, and De Zeit, as well as more than 50k followers on Instagram, people are clearly taking notice of Kövecses’ work.
Known for her digital collages, her work is made of geometric shapes arranged in colorful patterns. But according to Kövecses, what now has become her signature style, took some time and experimentation to develop.
“It took me quite a while to learn how to distinguish myself as an artist and my other self as an illustrator,” she told Papirmass. “Accepting the fact that as an illustrator I usually have to follow instructions I still find it hard to cope with tweaking my artwork many times before coming up with a final illustration.”
“I often scribble some vague sketches into my phone or notebooks that lay around the house and then get back to them later to turn them into final artworks,” she explained the creative process that takes place behind the scenes. “When working I often surround myself with books and albums on art, plants, children’s novels, landscapes or food that I spread out on the floor like a live mood board,” she adds.
Based in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus, her lifestyle fits nicely with her chosen subjects and themes (or vice versa). Committed to the art slow living, Kövecses’ inspiration comes from life on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and being a mother of three small kids. “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea,” she says.
Enter her wonderfully colorful worlds.
