Tobie Giddio

Tobie Giddio was born in 1963 in New Jersey, USA. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, in 1986 with a BFA in illustration, later teaching in the illustration department of F.I.T.

Her first assignments were for designer Norma Kamali and she also illustrated for Bergdorf Goodman in the New York Times. During the 1990's Tobie stopped drawing from live models and poleroids, and relied on her inner memory. She started using more dramatic colour.

Her elegant abstract and organic figures are created with Sumi ink, watercolours and Pantone film. He has described her work as being 'very internal and beyond the surface'.