Rocío Araya is a Basque artist. She lives in France and works as an illustrator and painter. She was born in the Basque Country in 1982 and studied Fine Arts at the Universidad del País Vasco and in 2010 did a master's degree in education. She is a self-taught illustrator but also honed her skills with such illustrators as Violeta Lópiz,Roger Olmos and Rotraut Susan Berner. Her published illustrated stories include "Un Cuento" ("A Story") with text by Daniil Jarms (Editorial Milrazones, 2014).She has had over 20 exhibitions in Spain, France and Chile. In 2017 her illustrations were included in the international "Imagini de la Fantasia" exhibition in Sármede, Italy.