Leona Lengyel

I am a London-based British-Hungarian contemporary artist, working across painting, installation, and immersive media. During my MA at the Royal College of Art, I explored how painting can move beyond the canvas to become a spatial and sensory experience. This continues to shape my practice, which spans oil and acrylic painting, installation, video, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR), with a focus on colour, light, material, movement, and perception.

At the centre of my practice is an ongoing exploration of light and darkness as states of presence and absence, uncertainty and renewal, loss and hope. Rather than depicting light, I seek to create atmospheres in which it can be sensed and experienced.

My current body of work, The Light Shines in the Darkness, extends oil painting through video, AR, and VR, exploring how painting can become an immersive experience. Red and the tulip are central visual and symbolic elements. Red operates as colour, material, and symbol, carrying associations of life, blood, and the sacred. The tulip holds particular significance within my Hungarian cultural heritage, evoking fragility and transformation. It becomes a form of emergence: growth taking place beneath the surface before becom...

MA Contemporary Art Practice Royal College of Art

2026 — The Light Shines in the Darkness, Royal College of Art (RCA) Graduation Show

2025 — I Was Going to Post This, UAL Chelsea College of Arts

2024 — Redemption Collection, Belleville Reformed Church, Paris

2023 — Beauty, St Barnabas Church, Kensington, London — Group Exhibition

2022 — I Am Collection, St Barnabas Church, London — Solo Exhibition and Permanent Display


Selected Textile and Silk Exhibitions

2015–2017 — London Fashion Weekend — Silk Scarf and Wall Art Collections

2014 — Fashions Finest Show — Silk Scarf and Wall Art Collection