About Glenda

 

Glenda Sburelin is an Italian illustrator. She studied Advertising Graphics and Photography in her hometown of Pordenone, then her passion for drawing brought her closer to illustration.

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Her work is inspired by the world of Art, Photography and Cinema, from which she draws compositional, chromatic and stylistic inspiration. Metaphor and symbolic language are the expressive tool of her works: "Life is always creation, unpredictability and at the same time automatic preservation of the entire past." Henri Bergson.

The techniques she uses are acrylic, inks, watercolor, gouache and monotype, and sometimes digital.

 

She has taken part to numerous Exhibitions and has also participated in Contemporary Art Reviews in Italy and abroad and in Collectives of artist's books.

In 2009 the "8th IBBY Regional Conference" of Northwestern University of Chicago included her among the 23 best illustrators selected for the exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the following year it would be the "dpi" magazine to count her among the 12 best illustrators of the Bolognese festival, exhibiting her works in two exhibitions in Taiwan: “In Fingers, Extra Space” (Creative Park for Taipei toy Festival, Taipei) and “Imaginary Fairy Wonderland - dpi International Group Exhibition” (Kaohsiung City). 

 

She has illustrated about fifty children's books with Italian Publishers and various European and non-European Countries: 

She currently teaches at the Štěpán Zavřel International School of Illustration in Sarmede.