Elena Blanco

Elena Blanco works with watercolours and ink to create dreamy, evocative paintings and illustrations. She engages with the unpredictable nature of her media in a receptive, playful way, merging technical skills with intuition.

Through her process, abstract patterns transform into dream-like landscapes and intriguing silhouettes.
A lover of storytelling, Elena draws inspiration from literature, cinema, and dreams. She infuses her scenes with an ethereal, cinematic quality, inviting viewers into open-ended exploration and encouraging them to find personal resonance within her images.

Since the mid-2010s, Elena Blanco has illustrated for private clients and been featured in publications worldwide. Her early work was available through retailers such as John Lewis, Habitat, and Ikea, as well as on platforms such as Etsy, Society6 and Deny Designs. Currently, her paintings are sold globally via Saatchi online and her website.

1992 Graduated in Architecture at the ETSA in Barcelona

2024-25 Art is Pure Joy, Solo Exhibition at the Copper Beech Cafe, London
2024 Forests & Silhouettes, Dulwich Artists’ Open House Show, London
2023 First Graphic Novel Competition Exhibition, The Cartoon Museum London
2023 1st Graphic Competition Longlisted for The Factory
2023 Summer Exhibition, Tate Library, Brixton London
2023 Dulwich Artists’ Open House Show, London
2023 A Slash of Blue, group exhibition, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
2022 Food for Thoughts Group exhibition at Mercato Mayfair London
2022 Feature at Romano Ibiza Summer Houses published by Carafernalia
2020 Feature at Issue Publication- Drawings of Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Vicens. A 1997 collaboration.
2018 Feature in The Watercolour ideas book by Joanna Goss – Octopus Publishing
2016 Artist Book Group exhibition at Lacuna Gallery, Clapham, London
2015 Artist Book Group Exhibition at studio73 Brixton, London
2014 Making Uncovered Group exhibition at 6 Somerleyton, Brixton London.
2014 Mill Memories – recollections of the Ashby’s Mill illustrated book, Brixton, published by Friends of Windmill Gardens, London.
2012 Making Uncovered Group exhibition at East Gallery Brixton, London.
2007 Children’s book illustration Group exhibition at Citylit College London.
1992 Gradu...