2nd Prize INPRNT Digital Art Award Winners 2026

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026

Myriam Wares

Title:

“Domestication” 

Medium & Dimensions:

Adobe Fresco & Adobe Photoshop

About the Artist

Myriam Wares is a French-Canadian illustrator currently based in Turin, Italy. Working between commercial illustration and personal studio practice, she creates richly detailed imagery influenced by symbolism, mythology, nature, and historical painting traditions. She has been freelancing full-time since graduating from Dawson College in 2018. Alongside her career, she pursued additional studies in art history at Université de Montréal to deepen her understanding of the artistic world. She has since worked with clients around the globe on projects such as packaging design, editorial illustration, publishing, and advertising. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, World Illustration Awards, Communication Arts and 3×3 Magazine, and featured in publications such as Colossal, Nautilus, Taschen and Radio-Canada. She has also served as a juror for Illustration Québec and recently gave her first guest lecture at Université Laval. She works fluently in French, English and Italian.

“Domestication”: This artwork was created as a personal exploration of the themes unfamiliarity, mostly in regards to being away from home. It was done during a period of my life when I lived nomadically and had no clear idea of when, or if, I would return. I wanted to translate in an image what it feels like to search for a new home in an unfamiliar place, and the bittersweetness that comes with it. In the end, I never did come back to my home country, and instead built a life abroad. This piece remains as an account of a very strange period of my life.