"Painting and drawing is my form of self-expression."
Even at a young age, Mala Alani felt magically drawn to the wonders of nature. As a little girl, she spent her days playing in the woods and fields of her home region, the Eifel. Today, the freelance illustrator lives in Cologne, but the impressions from back then still stay with her and inspire her to create fascinating animal drawings with ink, coloured pencils and graphite. Time and again, Mala is drawn back to the Eifel in search of inspiration, where she can hardly get enough of the flora and fauna.