Fine Artist & Designer

Alaa Waly

An Egyptian artist painting original works from Leeds, England, where Egyptian warmth meets northern light.

Dual Roots

Bridging heritage and light

My work lives between two places, the warmth and colour I grew up with in Egypt, and the quieter, cooler light of the north of England where I now live and paint.

Trained in both fine art and interior design. Not a compromise, a perspective. I understand how a painting commands a room before anyone notices why. I don't paint to decorate. I paint to change how a space feels the moment you walk into it.

The Method

Each canvas is built slowly, layering pigment and memory until the surface begins to breathe.

A limited palette. A blank canvas. Something unspoken that needs to exist. What comes out is always a surprise, and always, somehow, mine. Sometimes figures appear that I never intended to paint. I only see them when the work is done.

Life has a way of reshaping your relationship with making things. I'm back in the studio now, and the work feels different, more considered, less anxious.

Bring something alive into your home.

Every painting is original, signed, and ready to hang. UK delivery included.