Natsko Seki
Email
mail@natsko.com for any inquiries.
natsko.shop@gmail.com for any inquiries about our products.
Agency representation
Japan - Taiko & Associates Co., Ltd. Contact - Taiko Hasegawa
China - Ampersand Globe. Contact - David Pan
the rest of the world - Artistique. Contact - Dave Moxey
Instagram: Natsko_Seki
Video link: Natsko Seki illustrates London for the Louis Vuitton Travel Books 2013
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Selected Awards
2022
Broadway Market has been shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Award
2021
The Last Paper Crane has won the UKLA 11-14 Book Award
Broadway Market was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in the Alternative Publishing Category.
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Born in 1976, Natsko grew up in Tokyo, and studied educational psychology at Keio University in Tokyo before moving to England. She graduated with a B.A. Illustration (Hons) from University of Brighton in 2005, and made her way to London where she now works on an increasing number of worldwide commissions.
Her illustrated book, Last Paper Crane, received the UK Literacy Association Book Award in 2021. Broadway Market, another book she illustrated, was shortlisted at World illustration Awards 2021. Her works have been published by Louis Vuitton and Phaidon Press. She is also an author of two children’s books. Her Illustrations are permanently displayed at the City of Bath World Heritage Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and Whittington Health NHS Trust in London. Her limited edition prints have been sold at the shops at Victoria and Albert Museum, London Transport Museum, Tate Gallery, and Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Inspired by flora and fauna, buildings, and people from different cultures, some of Natsko’s landscape consists of thousands of layers, digitally collaged with her photographs, drawings, and found textures.
Her clients include: Victoria & Albert Museum, NHS Foundation Trust, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Scandinavian Airlines, Transport for London, London Transport Museum, Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, Phaidon Press, Wallpaper*, Bloomsbury Publishing, Random House, Japan House London, House of Illustration, Waterstones's, Royal Society of Arts, Historic Royal Palaces, Seoul Metropolitan Government, BBC, Toyota, Barneys Newyork Japan, Takashimaya, Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, and more.