Melbrins 2019 Japan

French Illustrator & Visual Storyteller

I'm a French artist exploring identity, resilience and adaptation through illustration and visual storytelling.

For several years, I worked as a full-stack developer and UI/UX designer before deciding to leave my career behind and pursue art full time. Since then, I've adopted a nomadic lifestyle, travelling across Europe, Africa and Asia to experience new cultures and understand how changing environments transform the way we think, create and connect with others.

Rather than documenting the places I visit, I use travel as a creative process. Every journey becomes an opportunity to question my assumptions, meet people with different perspectives and collect experiences that later evolve into illustrations, comics and photographic projects.

Selected Highlights

  • Full-time artist since leaving the technology industry.

  • Travelled and created work across Europe, Africa and Asia.

  • Speaker at the British University in Egypt.

  • Held the Sparrow Exhibition in Cairo.

  • Creator of ArtistNoMatterWhat, GlobeTrottingPixels and Ganda.

If you're interested in collaborating on an exhibition, workshop, artist talk, commission or residency, I'd love to hear from you.

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  • London Eye Sunset by Melbrins

    Move.

    Move is the decision to leave the familiar behind. Through travel, different cultures and unexpected encounters challenge my assumptions and expand the way I see the world.

    The journey isn't my destination, it's the first step of my creative process.

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  • Against The Flow by melbrins

    Learn.

    Learn is about making sense of those experiences. I question my assumptions and the way I see the world.

    My comics become a visual journal, capturing the ideas, doubts and lessons that gradually reshape my perspective.

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  • Ganda Assez by melbrins

    Adapt.

    Adapt is where those reflections become creation. Rather than illustrating the places I've visited, I create work inspired by how they changed me.

    Every illustration, story and project is an attempt to transform experience into something meaningful that can spark curiosity, conversation or change in someone else.

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