Rhaega Ailani

Rhaega Ailani is an illustrator an freelance designer born near the Mediterranean sea, currently living between Tarragona and London.

She studied Art and jewelery at the School of Arts and Crafts of Tarragona.

Her former career started in Greece in 2009.

Afterwards, she has been working in little projects and releasing book cover illustrations and some personalized illustrations for some books and the card game "Myths at War", collaborating with some other illustrators, she took three years in silence to focus in finding a new perspective to can develop and improve her art.

In April 27th of 2016 she came back deciding to work with the new name of Rhaega Ailani Art and she released her new exhibition showing a more spiritual & deep side of her personal artwork in her new work called "Mythica": A very transcendental and inner work dedicated to the secret world of fairies that belong to different cultures at The Cultural Center of La Bobila in Hospitalet de Llobregat at Barcelona in June 2016, getting a special mention in the agenda of events from the official Barcelona Pride Magazine

Lately two of her latest artwork called "Affirmation" and "Pure Energy" can be seen in the official collection, together with other artists of the "Tina Turner Museum" in the "Delta Heritage Center" of Brownsville, the town in which was born the Diva of Rock´N´Roll, as a permanent tribute of her Life and Career.

Most of her artwork is focused in Fantasy and Children Illustration and Concept Art, mentioning the release of the cover for the next edition of the fantasy book called “The Eye of the Dragon” from the writer JJ Hernandez Gomez, "Dibujos por sonrisas" ("Drawings in exchange for smiles"), collaborating with different artists donating their artwork, and designating their benefits to get a better life for all the children that are actually in the refugee camps around Europe, the amazing comic book project called "Battle with all her finery: Tales of women who rule", hosted by Mad Scientist Journal, and the design of some inner illustrations for the role book game called “Aureo”

Birthdate? 20 of December

When did you start painting? I started at an early age. I always knew I came to this world to be an illustrator and a painter

When and what and where did you first get published?

First time I got published around 2009, when I started my career, in Greece, at newcomicz.gr

Why do you do artwork? Basically, because it´s a quite "addictive" personal needing to express through my hands, what is at the corners of my soul.

Why do you do illustrations for Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? Because I found always much more appealing the Worlds of Fantasy and Daydream, and explore my own soul through them, than the common reality itself.

Who is your favorite author? Your favorite story? I have too many. As a illustrator, Frazetta, Huges, Azpiri, Mignola, as an author Poe, Lovecraft, Orwell, Rowling or K. Dick,

What are you trying to say with your art? I use it as a open door to other worlds, a new window to another universes, maybe forged by my own dreams and imagination.

Do you Blog? Yes of course: https://thespiritualstrokes.blogspot.com.es/

If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say? A quote from Winston Churchill: "Never give up".