Marcin Piwowarski was born in 1972 and pursued both international and domestic careers in painting and children's illustration. He is self-taught in traditional as well as digital illustration and managed to make over one thousand books during his twenty-year artistic journey. His artwork is mostly inspired by nature, daily life, and music. He likes to mix magical and mysterious ambiance with down-to-earth elements of everyday reality, which results in thrilling but comprehensible pieces that are loved by children and adults equally. Despite all of that, the most important about his persona is, as he says, that he prefers tea over coffee.