Gigi Rosado

What Defines Gigi Rosado's Work

Gigi Rosado trained as an illustrator and interior designer at the Glasgow School of Art — and both disciplines are visible in her work. The illustrations use bold, confident colour and expressive pencil strokes to capture everyday subjects with a warmth that feels personal rather than decorative. Coffee cups, disco balls, peonies, evening readers, red tulips — the subjects are drawn from daily life, but the treatment lifts them into something more considered.

The colour palette is distinctive — warm, saturated tones that give the work immediate visual presence on a wall. The pencil texture running through the colour fields adds a handmade quality that distinguishes the work from purely digital illustration. Themes of womanhood, leisure, and small domestic pleasures recur across the collection, creating a visual world that feels intimate and specific.

The Disco Balls and Disco Tea pieces bring playful energy, while Evening Reader and Mocha capture quieter, more contemplative moments. This range within a consistent visual style makes the collection work both as individual statement pieces and as curated sets.

Choosing the Right Format

Fine art paper is the natural choice for Rosado's illustration work. The expressive pencil strokes, bold colour contrasts, and graphic composition come through with full clarity on a smooth matte surface. Paper prints are available in A3, 50×70cm, 70×100cm, and A0, with oak, black, or walnut brown frames. Black frames sharpen the graphic contrast, while oak adds warmth that complements the saturated palette.

On canvas, the textured surface echoes the handmade quality of the pencil strokes — the floral pieces and the more painterly compositions like Peonies and Evening Reader gain additional warmth from the canvas texture. Canvas prints come in 30×40cm, 50×70cm, and 70×100cm, with an optional floating frame.

Pairing Gigi Rosado Prints

Two or three Rosado pieces in the same frame style create an immediately cohesive grouping — the consistent colour sensibility and illustration approach hold the set together while the subject variety keeps it interesting. The Disco Balls alongside Peonies, for instance, balances playfulness with botanical calm. A trio of Rosado prints in matching black frames makes a strong contemporary gallery wall with a distinct personality.

Rosado's work pairs naturally with other contemporary illustrators in our design and illustration collection. For a colour-rich contemporary wall, combine with pieces from Treechild or explore our abstract collection for a broader range of contemporary approaches.

The botanical subjects — Peonies, Red Tulips — also connect to our botanical collection, where Rosado's expressive, contemporary take provides a counterpoint to traditional botanical illustration. For a wall that mixes illustration styles, pair with work from Florent Bodart, whose graphic approach to natural subjects shares a similar playful precision.

All prints are produced in our Berlin studio using archival pigment inks rated for 100+ years.