Sandra Rilova

Sandra Rilova is an illustrator who graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Bilbao in Basque Country and has a postgraduate in illustration at EINA in Barcelona. She started her career as an illustrator in 2018, and since then she has worked on illustrations for books, covers, editorial illustrations, campaigns and institutions.

From 2018 to 2020, She had the opportunity to work on the New Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense, Denmark. EVENT Communications, a global exhibition/ experience design agency, contacted her for the project. She was tasked with creating all the illustrations for the museum.

Her illustrations have been published in publications such as Jostein Gaarder´s Sophie’s World (2019), Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin (2017), or The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin (2016).

Sandra has received high praise for her work and has received an array of awards and nominations, including World Illustration Awards in 2017, The Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition (2020) or finalist at the 56th edition of 2022 Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

Selected clients: Google, Pottermore, Facebook, Hans Christian Andersen Museum, The Folio Society, Penguin Random House, Fundación Telefónica, Harvard Business Review, Editorial Planeta, Nórdica Libros, Ayuntament de Barcelona, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de España.

Publications:

He extendido mis sueños a tus pies de W.B.Yeats. Nórdica Libros, 2023

Los Muertos de James Joyce. Catedral Books, 2022.

El País de los Niños Perdidos de Gustavo Martín Garzo. Siruela, 2022.

Transformaciones by Anne Sexton. Nórdica Libros, 2020.

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. Published by The Folio Society. 2019. 

Donkeyskin. Charles Perrault. Retold by Sofia Rhei. Nevsky Books, 2017.

The Queen of Spades. Alexandr Pushkin. Nevsky Books, 2016.