Biography

February 06, 2008 – by Anneli

Illustrator Anneli Olander, born in 1981, has been drawing since she got her first crayon in her hand at age two, in Storfors, Sweden. At age 15 she had her debute as a cartoonist in the magazine “Utsikt Mälardalen”. Same year she started drawing the comic “Julia” for the “Strängnäs Tidning”, a local magazine, and she continued drawing “Julia” until year 2000. Two years later she went to artschool in Stockholm. After this she moved to Australia to study design and illustration at the University of Newcastle. Returning to Sweden in 2005, Anneli Olander went back to drawing comics. She created “Maja”, an appreciated comic strip about a singlewoman in midlife crisis which was published on a regular basis in the Swedish magazine “Södertälje Posten”.

In January 2007, Anneli Olander started her company A.Olander Illustration. After two months she had her first big client from USA. She mostly works with illustrations for magazines and clothing, but is exploring the gallery world and dipping her toes in anything interesting she comes across. Today Anneli lives near the Swedish mountains and wild nature in Åre, and her clients are situated all over the globe.