About
I am Elor, a French and British artist originally from Le Grand-Bornand, in the Aravis mountains at the heart of the French Alps. After spending five years in Scotland studying Applied Art at the University of Edinburgh, where I developed my love for painting and glass blowing, I returned to my native mountains to dedicate myself fully to my artistic practice.
I build paintings from thousands of layered lines, watercolour on paper, worked slowly, one mark at a time. The result sits between movement and stillness: compositions that seem to breathe rather than depict.
My work moves between abstraction and the feminine figure, both treated as landscapes of rhythm and repetition. A restricted palette, variations of density within a single hue. The entire process of making the work is meditative. It is a way of slowing down that I make available to whoever stands in front of the finished piece.
I draw from the environments I move through, the Alps, Scotland, and places I encounter for the first time that sometimes leave a mark on me. The invisible lines that structure a landscape, fluid, mineral, wind-shaped, are the grammar of everything I make.
Once finished, the work belongs to whoever looks at it.
