The first artist-in-residence at Berlin’s Idrawalot, Andrea Heimer’s intricate, delicate and dark paintings immerse you in an awkward ’90s American suburban childhood.

Anna uses gentle colour palettes and lots of acrylic, beautifully executed in her charming tale of two people with temperature control problems.

A freshly minted illustrator and recent arrival to Cologne, Nadine makes work with a mash-up of shaky hand-drawn elements and digital textures.

In Björn’s work, shaky pencil lines, wide-eyed figures, textures and hand-drawn words seem to tumble into themselves and fight against each other to be seen.

French illustrator Chimène Henriquez creates illustrations with soft dabs of paint and vibrant colours, particulary in her ongoing collaborative project Les Exquis.

Part of the comic scene, a playful sense of adventure permeates Stephan’s work and he creates characters with contasts in his slick and colourful books for children.