Marina Antonova
Illustrator merging painterly style with modern themes
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In this series, I explore the emotional geometry of Parisian evenings — the tension between interior and exterior, warmth and distance. Cafés appear as sanctuaries of light, fragile and temporary. Figures dissolve into the night, half real, half reflection.
Les Cafés de Nuit began as an exploration of the spaces where silence and connection coexist. The series captures moments in Paris cafés — once symbols of conversation and presence — now reimagined through the modern loneliness of blue screens and dim reflections.
This series offers a look behind the scenes — the drawings, experiments, and evolving lines that later find their way into my Parisian works. The motifs, inspired by chevaux de frise (the ornamental iron spikes that guard Parisian balconies), have become a recurring visual...
French literature seems to carry its own distinct color palette. Proust is violet — the fading twilight of memory. Camus is the white-hot sun of Algeria. Colette is bathed in gold, filled with the late-afternoon light of the Palais-Royal.
And then there’s Georges Simenon: pure,...
Les Escaliers began as a visual reflection on solitude and transformation. The spiral staircase became a recurring motif — a structure that is at once functional and poetic, mechanical yet organic. In these drawings, stairs entwine with trees, light bends through fog, and spaces...
