Inspired by the Renaissance and the realism of the 19th century,  Iassen Ghiuselev is one of the most notable illustrators of our days.

“Book illustration represents the near entirety of my artistic search until the present. In this I aim at investing everything that I hold as an artist, while attempting to interpret every single text in its own manner, striving to recreate the atmosphere of the period, the emotions, the layers of significance and meaning that lead me to various conceptions of the composition, points of view, colouring, the light-dark interplay, silhouettes and so on.”

Alice first, abridged edition by Aufbau-Verlag, 2000.