Conrad Roset: illustration transforms into a woman

When you get the opportunity to personally meet one of our greatest international, yet home-grown illustrators, you realize the intimate and accessible talent of professionals like Conrad Roset, who I recently had the chance to speak with at the presentation of his new advertisements for the great Codorníu firm only a few days ago.

With truly admirable and surprising creative talent, this 29-year-old artist was born in Terrassa, a city where, from a young age, he was surrounded by boxes of markers, crayons and blank pages enabling him to transmit the beauty of his illustrations, which fascinate and hypnotize us so much today.

Trained at the Joso School for comic and visual arts in Barcelona and later at the Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts, Conrad Roset began to stand out within a very short time thanks to his impeccable technique and stunning creativity.

Drawing became his true passion at a very young age, when he used to play with his brother, drawing anything they liked, until years later he achieved his culminating work, drawing inspiration from women to create Muses, his most personal collection, which he defines as follows: “I’m seeking the beauty which exudes from the body, I enjoy drawing the female figure”, both unequivocally and precisely.

His watercolors and acrylics radiate an unusual and transcendent beauty that he meticulously strives for in his studio located in Barcelona’s Gracia neighborhood. After a time working with the Grupo Inditex fashion giant at Zara, he began his freelance work, designing for various brands, advertising agencies and publishers.

At only 29, Conrad Roset has already exhibited in galleries and museums such as the MOCA in Virginia, SpokeArt in San Francisco, London Milles in London, Tipo Infames in Madrid and Artevistas and Miscelanea in Barcelona, in addition to collaborating as a professor of illustration at the BAU School of Design, the most important University Design Center in Barcelona.