Illuminate your indoor space with back-lit art by Ghizlan El Glaoui.
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STRENGTH, BEAUTY & SPIRIT
Ghizlan’s distinctive art combines ancient and modern, using light and technology in harmony with traditional techniques to create works that are richly layered, dynamic and atmospheric.
A powerful collection of portraits of horses, wild animals and women, Ghizlan unites this contemporary approach with subject matter that is deeply connected with the Marrakesh of her childhood, and in particular with the paintings of her father Hassan El Glaoui, who was known and celebrated for his horses and riders.
THE CANVAS REIMAGINED
These paintings encapsulate the distinctive harmony between power and beauty that is imbued in all her work. Through Ghizlan’s vibrant use of colour and stylised detail, the incredible splendour and might of these majestic animals are wonderfully captured and stunningly enhanced.
By Ghizlan’s method of working in a grid, and the incorporation of illumination from behind, the paintings become reminiscent of the glittering mosaics of the Byzantine Empire, a further marriage of past, present and future.
A uniquely multifaceted artist, Ghizlan creates work across painting, drawing, and – in a distinctively beautiful way – light. Throughout her practice, her influences are highly contemporary while hinting towards her special heritage. Unconstrained by the limits of the conventional canvas, Ghizlan continuously explores technology and light – looking at how light can move through an artwork, becoming a living, breathing, moving part of it.
Working on painted canvas in tandem with the latest LED lighting technology, Ghizlan’s paintings have a mosaic-esque quality, each mark placed with careful consideration yet in constant play with the light as it glints through a grid like pattern.
Glass illuminations use a similar lighting system. The only difference being the LED configuration. Arranged on a long slim strip, the light is positioned on the edge of the glass, allowing concentrated light to travel unhindered through the glass until it hits the etched areas of Ghizlan’s art, transforming it into a glowing multicoloured or single coloured marvel.
YES WOMEN MONACO
Ghizlan has designed these unique, illuminated trophies that are to be presented on the 1st December 2025 to HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and Mrs Christien Ross.
Shining a light on sisterhood
BACKGROUND
Born in Morocco in 1969, Ghizlan spent much of her childhood in the studio of her father, the world renowned painter Hassan El Glaoui.
Often the subject of his portraits, she was immersed in his world of colour, energy and inspiration, surrounded by the familiar heady smell of paint and linseed oil. Now, in Ghizlan’s own richly hued, expressive painted portraits, her use of light and texture bridges the ancient and modern, the classical and the contemporary.
Raised in two worlds, her works are distinctive in both style and substance. Through her use of vivid colour, metallic pigment and illumination, Ghizlan’s physical and cultural duality finds its artistic expression in the tying together of the physical and the metaphysical, the outer and inner self. Her subjects appear timeless and yet at the same time lay bare an intuition, wisdom and solemnity that quietly reveals their complexity. In Ghizlan’s work, through capturing the various essences of the sacred feminine, the physical body serves as a bridge to a more powerful force – the inner strength, light and aura that are the true self.
“I always try to adjust to the technological innovations of my time. I believe Picasso would light up his paintings if he could”.
CONTACT
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
GHIZLAN EL GLAOUI – ghizlanelglaoui@me.com
