Foti­ni Tikkou was born in Athens and grad­u­at­ed from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2009. She com­plet­ed a MA in Visu­al Arts in Brus­sels in 2014. She has illus­trat­ed sev­er­al children’s books for Greek and inter­na­tion­al pub­lish­ing hous­es. After liv­ing in Copen­hagen for sev­er­al years, she is now based in Greece.