Born in 1988 in Haifa, Israel, Tal Shalom studied Fashion Design in Tel Aviv.

There Shalom begin to create a personal illustrative style that speaks back to his childhood imaginings and drawings.

Vintage and historical references mix lyrically with a modern vision of the face and body creating fantastical creatures of fashion and mode, unapologetic as they gaze from the page, languid and seductive yet forceful and driven like a storm.

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“I don’t sketch an idea before I create the final illustration. It all comes from one touch of the end of my brush to the paper. The rest is an instinctual communication between my brain and the flow to my hand. Working largely in watercolor there is a kind of sensitivity and layering that I can achieve unlike other mediums.”

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Shalom moved to San Francisco in 2011, the sister city to his home town of Haifa. He now resides in New York City where he continues to experiment with new ways of seeing and illustrating the human form as it relates to fashion, dance, beauty and art. His greatest inspirations are Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Erte’.