Ella Gallardo is a Montréal-based oil painting artist whose work explores the quiet complexities of human emotions through monochromatic figurative forms. Dreamlike moments caught between the fire of light and darkness.
Her paintings blend realism with symbolic distortion. A visual language where the body becomes both subject and metaphor. Through controlled softness and surreal movement, she captures internal shifts: unravelling, emerging & drifting.
Working in a black-and-white palette, she gives form to what words often fail to hold; vulnerability, devotion, detachment, grief, resilience, nostalgia.
Each piece is an intimate monologue, where both light and shadow cohabite.
Ella uses her painting as reflections. A way to remember, release, and return to what feels true.
In a world that rushes to cover the raw, Ella chooses to reveal it. Her work invites you to pause, to confront what lies beneath, to reflect and find quiet power in vulnerability within oneself.
