Irena Zablotska was born one shiny morning in Lviv, Ukraine. Influenced by fiction and semi-psychedelic soviet cartoons, "The Music box" and "The Mystery of the Third Planet" in early childhood. She grew up and realized that she want to express her emotions and feelings with drawings. She's working as a graphic and web designer, also drawing lots of non-commercial works. Irena have taken part in several exhibitions in USA, Europe and Russia, featured in lots of projects. Now she is a part of a little newborn design studio Keepa.

How would you describe your personal style?
Someone once called it "elegant horror". I like that definition and use it frequently to describe my works.

When you were a child, did you want to become an illustrator?
No. When I was a kid I used to dream that I would become an astronaut, have a nice helmet and all that stuff. To become a superhero in a word. All my creativity on paper was based on another astronauts, stars, planets or UFOs. I had dreams about other worlds. I decided to become an illustrator about four years ago.

Where do you get your inspiration from?
I find inspiration in music, beautiful views, my wonderful friends and country trips, in love, in sufferings, in dreams that have not come true.

Could you describe your working process?
I think on my next work for a very long time, imagine, live with it, spoon-feed it. Than I draw it, rather quickly. Mostly thinking takes more time for me than implementation. I put my soul in every work.

What would be the ideal working setup for you?
Big attic room with an old European city roof view.

What do you love the most about your life as an illustrator?
I love the freedom in my work. Freedom of thoughts expression and that some people like it. This is marvelous.

If you had to do something totally different for living, what would it be?
I think I could become a good composer. When I was a child I wrote beautiful strange music. Maybe an archeologist, in a literal manner I love to touch history.

What kind of music do you listen while working?
I like electronic experimental music and I just love funk. It's very vital, optimistic music.

If you could go anywhere tomorrow, where would you go?
I've always wanted to go to South America.

Who are you all-time favorite artists?
Otto Dix and Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko.

Who has been the most inspiring non-artistic person for you?
It's a secret.

What is the most bizarre dream you ever had?
In my childhood I wanted to learn how to get out of my body and fly around the city, go into peoples' houses and watch them. Or a cap of darkness. Present days I frequently represent myself as I wake up in a strangers' body - human or animal. I imagine a scenario of what I will do, whom I will talk to, what words and what deeds. It can not be called a dream, it's rather things I am afraid of very much. I like to scare myself.

If you could meet any great name from known human history, who would it be?
Jesus Christ.

Thank you!