Lena Mayo

Contemporary Visual Artist · Founder of Mayo Art School

My name is Elena, although I've been signing as Lena Mayo for some time now.
Painter, illustrator, and lover of the simple beauty that dwells in the everyday.
My work moves between abstraction and figuration, and is always born from gesture, music, and emotion.

Since I was a child, I found in art and music two ways to breathe more slowly.
I studied piano from the age of three, grew up among pencils and paintbrushes, and later trained in Fine Arts and Piano at the Conservatory of Music.
Both disciplines have always accompanied me like an invisible, silent, and profound thread.

For years, I was a teacher in secondary and high school classrooms, until in 2015 I made a vital change to embark on my own path, full of challenges, learning, and many satisfactions.

Becoming a mother in 2019 also changed my outlook, and brought me closer to the world of children's illustration with a new tenderness.
From this, my decorative collections and my line for kids (@lenamayo.decokids) were born, as well as a line of more intimate and slow-paced work (@lenamayo.art).

Art as a way of inhabiting the world

Today, my focus is on contemporary art: gestural painting, original large-format works, pieces that breathe space and emotion.
I work with limited series of abstract and poetic works, where the gesture is the protagonist and each stroke contains a story.

The School

In parallel, I created Mayo Art School, an online school where I guide others—adults and young people—to reconnect with their creativity.
Through classes, challenges, and slow-motion project proposals, I guide my community to look, paint, and live more calmly.
Because painting is also a way of being present, of sharpening sensitivity, and of transforming everyday life into something extraordinary.

Between canvases, flowers, and slow days

Everything I create—be it a painting, a class, or a decorative print—is born from the same source:
a deep need to give form to the invisible and to share what moves me.

And so, between illustrations and canvases, photographs and music, recordings and editions... and a great deal of enthusiasm, I continue my constant search for new blank canvases on which to capture my ideas.

If you also believe that art can be a refuge, a driving force, and a celebration,
I welcome you to my world.