PhG-Art

Business enquiries:
philippe.gotteland@free.fr

Freelance Illustrator & photographer

I'm a daydreamer...head in the clouds and feet on the ground...what is the best way to describe me? My art only can reveal what I really am...so take a look at my artworks and photos. Most of all I'm a drawing lover.

Born in Nice, France, in 1973 I quiclky learned how to hold a pencil...not exactly as the other humans do but who cares...I was holding it all the same! Since then I never droped it and I used it to scribble nearly everywhere, and almost everywhen.
Studying art in school? Too expansive for my student wallet...no money in my pockets I learned computer science and especially computer graphics in order to stay close to my first love and...to find back my pencils even if these ones were digital ones.
Create...this is THE word...imagination unceasingly working I can't live a single day without dreaming, observing and thinking about the next drawings that will one day be born from the edge of my pencils...
After illustrating a tale from J.R.R. Tolkien named Tinuviel in collaboration with Esther Schweins and Claudia Uhle, my pencils decided to illustrate in a very personal way, the Harry Potter's books.
I worked on this serie for a fans' website called SecretsHP and to illustrate a fanfiction from Appie Key ...and almost of all...for my own pleasure. I was first published in Russia, illustrating magazines then I worked on several books and CD album covers for writers and music bands...

Many boards and drawings remain to do...Creating and looking for new styles always keeping mine since I'm a child...flying in heroic fantasy world but doing also children books...illustrating faery tales or Cd covers...creating, drawing freely and without any restriction...the only way to express ourselves...the only way to feel alive...