Gemma Capdevila

Born in Barcelona in 1988, I trained in Fine Arts and currently work from a small wooden studio surrounded by nature. This secluded space shapes my practice and allows me to explore the thin line between the visible world and the spiritual realm through wildlife and celestial landscapes, focusing on the quiet presence of animals and the silent rhythms of the night.

Working primarily with watercolor on large-scale, high-quality paper, my practice moves between precise figurative detail and atmospheric washes that allow the paper to breathe, evoking cosmic vastness, snow, mist, or open air. I approach each piece from a minimalist perspective, centering on essential anatomy and celestial symbolism, which become a silent point of connection between the oneiric world and the viewer.

Both the wildlife and the moons in my work are understood as silent guardians of the natural world. Through a restrained palette of deep indigo blues and subtle turquoise lights, I seek to reveal an inner luminosity and a mystical, dreamlike dimension that often goes unnoticed, inviting the viewer to pause and reconnect with a sense of stillness within the earth and the cosmos.

My work has been published and validated internationally, with projects in Fra...

Fine Arts Degree - University of Barcelona.

Postgraduate in Illustration - EINA.

Technical Degree in Illustration - Llotja School.

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS

• 2025 Honourable Mention, Piccolo Galileo Prize (awarded by the Milan Museum of Natural History, Italy) for Simbiosi published by Mimebú (Italy).

• 2024 Les enfants de la lune, published by Hachette Livre (France).

• 2023 Once there was, published by Abrams Books (USA).

• 2023 Visual storytelling and artistic collaboration with Salomon.

• 2022 IBBY Honour List 2022 (International Board on Books for Young People) for Blau 52 published by Bindi Books.

• 2021 Night on the Galactic Railroad, published by Great Star Culture (China).

• 2021 El caballo valiente, published by Penguin Random House.

• 2020 Vides Secretes and Cuentos para tener valor, published by Grupo Planeta.

• 2018 The Seas, published by Tin House (USA).

• 2017 Nature research and art reportage in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland.