Lamyaa Elgen – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://lamyaaelgen.com/
07377 717118
Lamyaa.elgen@gmail.com

Exhibition information

Debut solo exhibition 

I’m excited, for the first time, to exhibit a new collection of original atmospheric landscapes celebrating the all corners of the English countryside – from the Lakes down to Oxfordshire and Cornwall.

Eva Langret has kindly described my work as “romantic and atmospheric”. 

I’ll also prepare limited edition prints and smaller framed works on paper. I love working with slow drying acrylics on linen or ampersand gesso board. 

Inspirations

I’ve always deeply appreciated the masters who came before us.

I’m inspired by Constable’s ability to capture intricate detail whilst maintaining strong composition, and Turner’s gift for evoking an emotional response through light and atmosphere – particularly in his later works.

I’m also drawn to the Hudson River School and Luminist painters of the 1800s – notably Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church – as well as Caspar David Friedrich.

As a child, I had a special interest in the sky and often felt emotionally moved by light radiating through clouds. That sense of illumination, movement and grandeur continues to inspire my own interpretations of the British landscape.

Artist information

Introduction

My name is Lamyaa Elgen (b.1995), and I am a British-Moroccan self-taught traditional landscape painter and cinematic composer based in the Vale of White Horse, in the South West Oxfordshire countryside.

My debut collection followed my experience as Wildcard Winner (Episode 4) on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year, Series 11, in the Lake District. 

My debut collection is celebration of barriers to the magnificence and luminosity of the Lake District through a different lens: one that is slower, gentler and compassionate. 

Personal background

Born and raised in St Albans, Hertfordshire, I grew up as a curious, undiagnosed autistic and ADHD child, finding a deep sense of comfort and calm in the changing landscapes around me. Traditional and atmospheric landscape painting inspired by Turner became places of refuge – spaces where I could observe, respond and make sense of the world without words.

Fluctuating seasons, light and movement helped me understand my lived experience of non-visible disability, chronic illness and later-diagnosed neurodivergence, and what it truly means to find visibility in the Sublime.