10 Questions For: Illustrator Nadia Chair Tirado

Nadia Chair Tirado (32), a.k.a Niñasilla, is an Andalusian-Moroccan illustrator born in Barcelona. Exhibitions of her work, inspired by Edward Gorey and Edgar Allan Poe, can be seen in venues throughout Prague including Fox & Deer and Bar No. 7. She has lived in the Czech Republic since 2010 where she continues to develop her “little drawer full of different black-and-white characters” and a fondness for Czech pickles.

1. Did you choose Prague or did Prague choose you? 

2. What changes have you noticed in Prague or the country at large since your arrival?

3. Which neighborhood do you call home and why is it better than any other district?

Niñasilla’s Little Artist series

4. Describe your perfect day in Prague or another beloved Czech city.

Grab a hot chocolate at Mamacoffee, have lunch at Plavecká Polévka, walk Náplavka market, stop in Baobab bookstore to buy some new books, go home and draw a bit, meet a friend for a cucumber lemonade (my new passion) in Madbar and keep walking until the night. 

5. How’s your Czech?

6. Name your favorite Czech person, place and thing.

Little Artists on display at Prague’s Fox&Deer

7. What has been the biggest challenge/adjustment for you as an expat living abroad?

8. What do you miss most about your home country and how does the quality of life here compare?

Well i’m Mediterranean! I miss fish! And the sea! But Prague has a lot to enjoy, too, so from time to time I eat some fish and go to the “sea” (Žluté lázně).

9. Share the greatest lessons you have learned from living in the Czech Republic.

10. Describe the expat experience in one word.

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Read more about Nadia on her official website and on Facebook. You can buy Nadia’s work, including posters of her “Little Artists” series and notebooks, pillows, and totes at the Czech design studio MERRYGORANDO as well poster44.cz.

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