Gianluca KU Garofalo

I was born in Rome on the 6th of July 1968. My creative job is deeply-rooted in my childhood, while observing my father’s painting and artistic work very closely. I was also affected by his music; his piano sessions at home also inspired me. My inclinations were, thus, expressed in the Art High School which I attended in Rome. In these years, I learnt the basis of drawing and some painting techniques, particularly watercolor and the way of using it. At the age of eighteen, I decided to move to Perugia where I started university with the desire to graduate as a vet and work in the countryside, in touch with nature and animals. While studying veterinary medicine, I went on drawing especially animals and characters , moved by a sort of emotional need. After five years, realizing to be bored enough of that life, I decided to come back to Rome. As for animals, I preferred to capture their essence by observing and drawing them, instead of treating their illnesses. In 1991 I was enrolled in the architecture faculty and, at the same time, I studied to become a professional illustrator. In 2000 I was selected to take part in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators’ Exhibition, both in the fiction and non fiction section. With great surprise, I had the pleasure to see the catalogue exhibition cover assigned to me. Together with other professionals I founded the editorial design studio and publishing agency C.atWork Creative and the illustration and creative writing school C.atWork Academy. I still collaborate with several schools, giving workshops of visual perception, drawing and children’s illustration. I’ve published and still publish with the following editors: Soleil Prod, Ankama, Hoepli, Giunti, Giunti Progetti Educativi, Giunti Kids, Mondadori, Rizzoli Editore, Gruppo Editoriale De Agostini, Helbling Languages, Lavieri Edizioni, Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori, Pearson Educational, Nottetempo, Blackat, Oxford University Press, Dorling Kindersley, Templar Publishing, Fernleigh Publishing, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana – Treccani, Nord-Sud, Ravensburger, Il Castoro, Il Battello a Vapore, Bonnier Carlsen, Coppenrath Verlag, Editions Pocket Jeunesse, Dark Jem, A&C Black, Kyowon, Siphano Picture Book, La Margherita , Ars Verlag, T-Scrivo Edizioni, Profil international, DoGi, Friederich Reinhardt Verlag, Založba Kres, Sello Editorial, Lumen Editorial, Sjaloom, Sudamericana, 24 Ore... ENEL Green Power. Golder Associates.