ABOUT THE ARTIST

I'm Léna, a musician, a violinist. I'm always in sound, but when I paint I go silent – my mind goes quiet, and everything I have to say comes out through the brush instead, slowly, and the silence fills with colour. It is one of my truest channels to the outside, precisely because it takes time.

I trained as a musician, with two master's degrees, and to me painting and music are the same thing: storytelling, rhetoric. So a painting isn't a description of a picture; it's something I'm saying in colour. Nothing I paint is faint, or pastel, or quiet.

I keep the pigment dense and saturated. The colours are a direct translation of how I feel and of the story I'm telling, and most of the paintings carry pathways and meanings hidden inside them.

Come close, close enough to find them and to see every pigment flicker, which is where my heart is. I want you to be curious, the way you were as a child – finding what nobody else noticed, coming back to a painting again and again. Curious, and open, and bright.

These paintings are made to be lived with. Each begins as a real watercolour, painted by hand, and comes to you as a fine art print. See the full collection.