Piet Paris

solo shows

08 Sept - 15 Okt 2023 CELEBRATION SHOW

03 April - 17 April 2022

06 March -  06 June 2021

group shows

01 Sept - 30 Sept 2022

12 Feb - 27 March 2022

The gallery proudly represents all of the unique artworks, drawings and collages of the internationally renowned fashion illustrator, Mr. Dutch Illustration, Piet Paris.

Pieter 't Hoen (1962), aka Piet Paris, started in 1989 as a fashion illustrator for De Telegraaf. For years he travels to Paris to literally draw the catwalk looks there. He was a pioneer at the time, fashion photography was more highly regarded at the time than the profession of fashion illustrator. However, his work was picked up by the international fashion world. He uses all the classic drawing materials, from pastels to acrylic and gouache paint, aerosols and markers.

As an illustrator he worked for the Japanese Vogue for eight years, became creative director of Harper's Bazaar and was the chief curator of the Arnhem Fashion Biennale from 2005 to 2009. In 2008 he won the Grand Seigneur fashion award. In that year he also made illustrations, displays and shop windows for the American department store Saks Fifth Avenue. He still gives drawing lessons to fashion students at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He donated his oeuvre to the Gelders Archive in 2018.

When Piet left his position at Harpers Bazaar and The Netherlands went into lockdown at the beginning of 2020, he was given more time and went in search of inspiration.

“If I don't know, I look for the best designer of the moment and see what he or she has done. That always works. The British Jonathan Anderson has it all for me. He designs such different clothes. I saw new lines and shapes. I wanted to master them.”

Paris, who works exclusively on commission and hardly ever does free work, suddenly found himself behind his drawing board every day. “I take a soft 4B pencil and a lily-blank A3 paper. And start sketching. ” One drawing after another rolled off his table. “Then I work out the sketch. I draw, paste and cut, spray and paint. Just like in the beginning. Inspiration flowed again. ”

Although Piet Paris has been a fashion illustrator since 1988, his work is rarely exhibited. He is very strict when it comes to exhibiting. But when Anneke Krull, founder & curator of the I Love Illustration Gallery, recently established in the Amsterdam Hallen, asked him, he was immediately enthusiastic. “I have a soft spot for her. I have deep respect for people who are so passionate and passionate about their lives at the service of a subject that has to do with me. And I want to be part of it. ”

Krull is proud of its new exhibitor. “Piet had been on my wish list for ever. He was the first and is still one of the very best illustrators in the Netherlands. Mr. Dutch Illustration, who doesn't want him on the wall.” - Text by Elleke van Duin, 2021

For press inquiries and available artworks contact the gallery on +31 (0)6 55360464 or send an email to info@iloveillustrationgallery.com