I am Elia Ormond, a French-British artist originally from Le Grand-Bornand, in the Aravis massif in the heart of the French Alps. After five years in Scotland, where I studied Applied Arts at the University of Edinburgh and developed my passion for painting and glassblowing, I returned to my mountains to devote myself fully to my artistic practice.

I build my paintings from thousands of superimposed lines, watercolor on paper, worked slowly, one gesture at a time. The result sits between movement and stillness: compositions that seem to breathe rather than represent. My work moves between abstraction and the female figure, both treated as landscapes of rhythm and repetition.

I draw from the environments I move through: the Alps, Scotland, and places encountered for the first time that leave a mark. The invisible lines that structure a landscape, fluid, mineral, shaped by wind, are the ones I try to bring forward, line by line, onto the paper.