Lujayn (b. 1997, Bahrain) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans oil painting, drawing, comics, and poetry. She has been making things since early childhood, filling pages with pencil and graphite before she could explain why — and has never quite stopped. As a teenager she gravitated toward writing and reading before rediscovering drawing at seventeen through inks and watercolours. At twenty-two she created Moshki, a grumpy cynical Arab youth whose small, precisely drawn world was populated by a companion snail, a reptile, and his multiple selves in various rooms.

She spent her early twenties in the Netherlands before returning to Bahrain, and it was on a visit to Rotterdam in 2024, working from a borrowed studio for the first time — that she returned to oil painting. Her current work centers on solitary female figures in interior spaces, exploring the particular loneliness that arrives not in emptiness but in the middle of warmth. Her paintings are slowly moving away from total immersion in blue toward something more complicated: a figure who remains blue while the room around her warms.

She is currently based in Bahrain.

Instagram: @jaynlu.art