Sonia Roy

Sonia Roy created a series of 7 illustrations for an article on "The masters of numbers" in the magazine of the airports of Paris, Paris WorldWide.

A Sonia Roy's collage for the article "Nurturing Genius" of Tom Clynes of the Magazine Scientific American Mind Magazine of January-February 2017.

Sample magazine, which puts forward the best Collage projects worldwide, selected 14 artists of 14 countries for its special Collage Design issue. We are proud that Sonia Roy is one of the members selected.

With the imminent approach of the holiday season, it's important to remember that Your brain too needs time-off. An evocative collage of Sonia Roy for this article on the benefits of taking some time for ourselves and to decompress!

Sonia Roy – Eplores Dreamscapes

There’s a dreamlike, allegorical quality to Canadian artist Sonia Roy’s work: vintage portraits are cast into enigmatic landscapes, and watched over by birds and foxes. They are highly evocative: hinting at emotionally charged, half-forgotten tales.

“Each of my pieces start with the characters. They are the narrators of my stories,” she explains. “Their expression and pose are very important to me.” In her images, 1950s pin-up girls beam coquettishly, and Edwardian children solemnly gaze on, surrounded by strange industrial landscapes and twisting branches.

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A complex and unique relation which is born between the Man and the Robot, without competition but with intelligence and beauty. That is what Sonia Roy managed to express for the Nexus magazine cover in her creation which honors and makes a reference obviously to the work " The Creation of Adam " of Michel-angel.

Delightful series of six illustrations by Sonia Roy for the article Guilt doesn't help. This will!  published in The Caregiver's Handbook column of Good Housekeeping magazine, March issue.

To discover new races of birds or birding is one of your passions? It is a good news because the Wall Street Journal has just published a beautiful article on this subject where Sonia Roy has created with softness, poetry and nostalgia a nice collage on this popular activity.

For the annual report, Eau Seine Normandie chose Sonia Roy to illustrate the book cover and the 5 dividers opening.

Sonia Roy produced a vintage collage style illustration for the article: Normal, normalien, normalite, évitons la crise ! of the French magazine Milk. The requested repetitive characters were to demonstrate that being identical is being "normal".

Sonia Roy illustrated a collage for a memoir about a Canadian writer's experiences growing up in Africa. The focus was about how different the customs are in Africa versus the West, specifically the attitude towards giving gifts and money.

Sonia Roy was chosen to create a collage series of several Canadian towns and areas, ridden by Canadian cyclist Clara Hughes during her big ride across the country, started on March 2014. Sonia’s collages have been put together to create a long visual frieze for the campaign website « Clara’s big ride » so that visitors can follow in images Clara’s location in real time.

Sonia Roy did two vintage collage illustrations for the article: Sight Unseen published in the April issue of the Rearder's Digest Magazine. One of the collage illustrations shows a portrait of Helen Keller, a famous American writer who lived deaf-mute and blind. The article is an extract of one of her publication and put the emphasis on the capacity to enjoy the beauty of the world through one of the 5 senses: the sight. The author also wrote what she would do if she was given the ability to see during three days.

Sonia Roy conceives an olfactory map in her vintage collage style for an article about perfume concept stores featured in French Culte(s) Lifestyle Magazine. Those new boutiques are an interesting alternative to the impersonal perfumeries' alleys or to pick up a perfume in a designer shop, which sometimes can be intimidating. The article points out many addresses in Paris, namely the Jovoy, the Labo, Nose and Sens Unique, Ombres Portées (in Lille) and Les senteurs (London).

Sonia Roy illustrates The City Break file for M, Le Magazine du Monde. She uses her vintage pictures collage style to translate the various holiday suggestions in images.

For the cover of the travel issue of the Washington Post Magazine, Sonia Roy had to create a photomontage about the literary landscape of Los Angeles (predominately noir fiction) and retracing the steps/landmarks of famous books.

Sonia illustrates the cover of the Denmark special section for the magazine Vanity Fair UK, for the November issue 2011.