Elena Lagun

Since I was a child, painting has always been my favorite activity. Apart from my own works, it gave me great pleasure to precisely copy artworks of world-famous masters of painting. It came easy to me to represent realism in my pictures and drawings, because I intuitively felt the proportions, color combinations and perspectives. Later, while visiting art museums, I studied the secrets of painting by old masters and I learned about painting techniques through art books. That was my first art academy that I had. After finishing university with an Economics and Finance degree, I graduated from Art International School in Moscow with a focus on art history.

In my abstract, figurative or landscape paintings, I strive to reproduce my feelings and emotions that I feel at the moment. I do not limit myself to just one theme or one theory. With my painting, I try to convey to the viewer the beauty and power of nature, people, and the world around them in detail, reflection, movement, or statics.

After I have studied all known painting techniques from watercolor to acrylic and oil painting independently through experiments with art materials, I choose the themes and styles of my pictures to match specific art projects. This can be fr...

Since 2010, I have participated in more than 45 international exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions such as :
ART International Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss ART EXPO, Zurich
ART Fair Lausanne, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Art Fair, Paris
Art International Innsbruck, Austria
Art International Fair Mulhouse
PARALLAX Art Fair - Chelsea Hall, London, UK
solo exhibition ARTelPoint Gallery, Zurich
Montpelier, France, Art-Angel Gallery
group exhibition ARTelPOINT Galerie, Zurich
ST.ART - Strasbourg, France
RHY Art Basel - Basel Switzerland
Invest Forum - Lugano, Switzerland
Art International Monaco
Art Salon Solothurn
solo exhibition in Kronen Gallery - Zurich, Switzerland
solo exhibition in Galerie am Lindenhof - Zurich, Switzerland