Ella Camlibel

Ella Camlibel is a UK based multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and textile designer whose work explores travel, femininity, and visual storytelling through colour, pattern, and hand-drawn mark making. With over 15 years of industry experience across fashion, print, and product design, she has worked with global brands including H&M and Next, alongside an ongoing freelance and studio practice.

Her work sits between fine art and applied design, informed by her professional background and a deep fascination with global craft traditions. Travel plays a central role in her process, with sketchbooks acting as visual diaries, collecting fragments of architecture, landscape, textiles, and everyday moments that later evolve into layered, narrative-led compositions.

Through her studio practice at Ella Jo Studio, Ella creates immersive, transportive works that balance intuition and structure, softness and strength, drawing on personal memory, cultural reference, and symbolic storytelling.


Artist Statement

My practice explores the intersection of travel, memory, and femininity through expressive drawing, painting, and colour-led composition. I’m drawn to symbolic forms that hold emotional and cultural meaning. Vessels, flora, and big cats recur throughout my work as quiet markers of containment, intuition, protection, and feminine strength.

Travel is integral to how I work. Sketchbooks function as visual journals, gathering fragments of places; textiles, architectural details, landscapes, and moments of daily life, that later resurface in the studio. Recent works have been influenced by time spent in Marrakech, where dense pattern, warm palettes, and ornate surfaces shaped both the atmosphere and rhythm of the pieces. Rather than documenting place literally, I aim to translate emotional residue and lived experience.

My background in textile and print design informs the structure of my compositions. Repetition, layering, and surface detail allow me to build imagined spaces where loose, intuitive mark making meets considered pattern. Each artwork becomes a vessel in itself; holding stories of place, identity, and memory, inviting the viewer into symbolic landscapes that feel intimate, expansive, and quietly powerful.


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