The Ministry of Culture has awarded the National Prize for Illustration 2025 to Violeta Fernández Lópiz, Ibizan artist specialized in the enlightened album. The jury has recognized in its decision the “great creativity” of lópiz, as well as its “atmospheric and envelope style, of clear poetic evocation”, also underlining its ability to convert each project into a unique exploration of artistic expression and visual aesthetics.
The jury has also valued how his work “enhances the language of the enlightened album” through an expressive game that exploits to the maximum the plastic, graphic and narrative resources of the environment. Each of Lópiz’s works offers the reader a new universe, says the note of the Ministry, where the simple, clear and delicate structure allows other worlds to be played with the fingers of the imagination.
With this recognition, endowed with 30,000 euros, Lópiz joins a prestigious list of creators who have received the prize in previous editions, such as Pep Monserrat, Sergio García Sánchez, Sonia Pulido, Viví Escrivá, Paco Giménez, María Rius Camps, Luci Gutiérrez or Alfredo González.
Born in Ibiza in 1980, Violeta Lópiz has worked with some of the most relevant publishers of the national and international landscape, such as Kalandraka, Edelvoves, Anaya, Siruela, Macmillan or Oxford University Press. His work has been translated into various languages and published in countries such as France, Italy, South Korea, Brazil and the United States.
Throughout his career, he has received multiple awards. In 2011, his book The fists on the islands He was awarded at the CJ Picture Book Awards in South Korea. In 2016 he won the Bienal Prize illustrate from Lisbon with Breast Friendsa book with text by Claudio Thebes edited by Bruaá. His work has been selected in international fairs such as the Bologna Children’s Book Fair five times and in the Du Livre de Montreuil Salon, in France.
Among its most prominent titles are The Forest (2017), Lullabies and nursery rhymes from South America (2017), The gold bakeries of the old woman (2012) y The amazing and true story of a mouse called Pérez (2012). In addition to her work as an illustrator, she collaborates with means such as The world, THE EXPRESS from Portugal and the magazine Iberia. Its creativity also extends to the design of clothing, murals, interiors, covers of digital discs, books and applications. Currently, he lives and works in Berlin, where he has his study.