The award-winning illustrator has addressed the gray area of #MeToo in her work 'Alison' “I still feel insecure about many things. But I feel allowed to say what I think.
Maybe someone might be interested,” he points out. Hockney was eye-opening to be able to see Middle Eastern art that I had never seen before, she says. “It was disconcerting, but also exciting. I went to the Tate Modern recently and didn't recognize almost anything in the permanent collection, but it was exciting.” “The Alice of the big mugs’ or Disney’s Peter Pan came from her hands and... who knows her? Illustration is mixed with life—the cover of a book, the label of a bottle—and is often an anonymous work.“I wanted to be a painter, but I thought about illustrating to make a living. The foundations of art history were masculine. All my life I have drawn and painted. As a child I was only interested in that and reading. I liked studying canonical history but also being able to edit it and add what I wanted to add to it. Discovering an artist we should have known years ago is exciting,’ she adds.