Silkscreen print from Júlia’s first authored book, The Queen in the Cave

Júlia Sardà was born in Barcelona in 1987. As a child, she saw her father Jordi Sardà drawing and painting, and he became her first and biggest artistic influence. Her mum Elisabet Portabella in her long black skirts selling tofu and listening to Enya was also a great influence. From 2007 to 2010 she studied illustration and other disciplines in a school named Joso, the University of Fine Arts and Massana School in Barcelona. Then she started working and she realized that what she enjoyed more was editorial illustration, so slowly she focused her efforts in this direction.

Júlia has had the pleasure to illustrate great books like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among others.

Recently, she has started to make picture books such as The Liszts written by Kyo Maclear, Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein written by Linda Bailey, Duckworth, the Difficult Child written by Michael Sussman, The Wolf’s Secret and Leina and the Lord of the Toadstools both written by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, and Moving the Miller’s Minnie Moore Mine Mansion by Dave Eggers.