Photograph © 2019 Sarah Kirby, Imagine Photography

Bio

Thérèse Cilia is a painter and illustrator whose whimsical and meticulously detailed work finds a home in children’s books, fine art prints, stationery, textiles, and commissions.

Thérèse’s current art obsession is surface design. While creating patterns for a children’s organic clothing company for the brand’s debut, she discovered a new passion and way to combine her love of illustration and design. Now, she creates pattern work inspired by vintage botanical prints and country gardens for fabrics and paper products as well as home goods including pillow cases, tea towels, and napkins, which she personally sews. 

Thérèse is inspired by stories of the human spirit, the natural world, and an obsession with artist materials and paper products. She obtained her BFA in 2007 at OCAD University in Toronto and lives with her husband, and two littles in Belleville, Ontario.