Konoco Studio  /  

Konoco Studio is an illustration + animation studio created by Cecile Fountain-Jardim, an American artist based in London with a degree from the Royal College of Art. With a practice centered around storytelling through image, she works predominantly in digital drawing and frame-by-frame animation, both traditional and stop-motion. Her work is often hand-drawn, aesthetically playful, and inspired by the concept of ‘wabi-sabi’, or a focus on imperfection. It is through this focus on the imperfect and playful that she explores the tension between the lighthearted and the serious, often juxtaposing colorful, childlike visuals with the deeply emotional stories she tells. Through her pieces, she investigates themes such as nostalgia, memory, and speculated realities to create and share human-centered narratives which reflect the commonalities in our respective experiences in light and accessible ways.