Stina Persson

Stina Persson is a fashion illustrator who’s known for her ability in using watercolours, ink and gouache and creating amazing works of art for popular magazines and brands like Absolut Vodka, Godiva Chocolatier, UNIQLO, DKNY, American Eagle Outfitters, Vogue Nippon, etc. She was born in Sweden in 1972, and has lived and studied in Tokyo, Florence and New York. Today, she lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

She has always loved making things, from muffins to art work to ceramics. Then it comes naturally to look at other people’s creations. Her favourite subject to illustrate is faces, women, and letters. And lately more and more organic shapes and patterns. When she was little, she used to draw girls with intricate hats, big smiles and colourful dresses. 

Her fields of work have included literally everything, from skateboard design to shrimp salad packaging and interesting Japanese and New York-based fine art projects.Her incredible watercolour paintings from the collection called perfectly flawed were inspired by getting off of the computer and being less than perfect but really I think that she has achieved a higher level of perfection in her newest collection. Something that you can only find in work completely done by hand, and kept away from the coldness and digital rendering of a computer. Her work is mesmerising and amazingly influenced by the timelessness of the fashion from 60’s and 70’s. When working with ink, she like to use wooden sticks that she pick up from the ground to draw with as they seem to make an interesting line. For colour, she use Doctor Martin’s transparent dyes, acrylics or paper collage.

She likes the beautiful things, the pretty patterns and the creative people. But the sad, anorexic girls, the snobbism and the conglomerate fashion houses she can do without. The goal with her work is making the ugly prettier and the beautiful a little edgier.

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Thiri Yadanar@Tiffany