Born in Alicante, Spain, Pablo Auladell graduated from the University of Alicante where he got his degree specializing in English philosophy. His academic formation of philosophy is heavily reflected in the dark, introspective, unsettling images Auladell creates. Auladell’s visual style is heavily characterized by the ominous settings he creates, mainly using pastels and wax pencils to create his illustrative worlds. The artist uses his practice as a way to understand himself and the world around him better, stating “you had to have a purpose, an artistic goal, and I wanted to know what the world was and who I was. Or, rather, why I was not who I thought I was. And drawing, art, would be my tool, would be the mediator.”
He first started off his artistic career collaborating with the editorial collective “La Taberna del Ñú Azul,” where he was awarded the prize of Cómic Injuve in the year 2000. This award allowed Auladell to start working as an illustrator, alternating between commissioned work and full authorship. Over the course of his career, he has illustrated and published nearly one hundred books. Titles such as La Torre Blanca, La feria abandonada, El Paraíso perdido, El sueño de Malinche, Lubianka or Cuaderno Arcaico Muralis are some of his most outstanding works. In recent years he has also frequented the world of cinema, where he has collaborated with the filmmaker Gonzalo Suarez drawing for him two short films.
Auladell’s work has been recognized with several awards, the latest of which are the 2016 National Comic Prize for El Paraíso perdido and the 2016 Gran Canary Island Library International Illustrated Album Competition Price for “Dorothy (A buen Paso)”. Auladell was a lecturer at the Ars in Fabula Master of Illustration in Macerata (Italy) between 2009 and 2019, and president of the Association of Valencian Illustration Professionals (Apiv) between 2009 and 2013.