Leonie Bos

Leonie Bos invents buildings and then puts them together. The Amsterdam illustrator takes her cues from printmaking and from twentieth-century architecture, layering fictional structures until a whole town stands in the frame.

One scene stacks a striped tower with a pink edge above a village church, a timber house and a fenced field where a single animal grazes. A mountain rises behind. Another sets a cantilevered block beside a motel sign and a teal palm, water spreading across the foreground. Both keep the speckled grain of a print.