From Student to Artist: Narrative & Composition with Yasmine Elgamal
You’ve worked hard to sharpen your skills. You’ve done the studies, attended the classes, followed the tutorials, and you finally know your way around the palette. But now you’re stuck: what do you actually paint?
Join Yasmine Elgamalfor a specialized course designed to bridge the gap between being a student and a practicing painter. Yasmine shares the secrets to crafting alluring narratives and dynamic compositions through the use of portraiture, the human figure, and environmental storytelling.
What to Expect: Over ten sessions, Yasmine will guide you through curated assignments, culminating in a fully realized painting for your portfolio. You will benefit from her wealth of experience as a prolific, gallery-exhibited artist.
Key Focus Areas:
Technical Mastery: Advanced paint application and color theory.
Atmosphere: Capturing light and mood effectively.
Narrative: Using storytelling elements to create striking, meaningful works.
Course Details
Term dates: 3rd September - 12 November 2026
Duration: 10 classes over 11 weeks (3 hours per class plus optional homework assignments)
Location: Berlin Ostkreuz (In-person)
Spaces: Limited to just 6 students to ensure personalized mentorship.
Cost: €600 for 30 hours of on-location tuition
All materials included
Sign up early to secure your spot in this unique, face-to-face masterclass!
Meet the Artist
I am a figurative painter, drawn to the human figure in the subtle narratives of everyday life, often framed, accompanied or taken over by flowers; sometimes vibrant with full petals and lush leaves, other times fading, with twisted petals, curled leaves, and fragile stems. By blending still life and figure, I capture moments from daily life with a touch of poetic license, painting in oil with a direct, expressive technique. My practice is rooted in close observation, yet reaches beyond realism to explore intimacy, memory, and the presence of impermanence in the everyday.
Born in Rome in 1993, I recently relocated to Germany.
In the last years my work has been recognized internationally through prizes such as The Almenara Prize in Cordoba(winner of the Moving Award, 2025) and curated group exhibitions, such as:
"Running with scissors" at Anders Gallery in Berlin (2026)
''Under Cover" (2026) and "Blindness" (2025), at Espaço Exibicionista Gallery in Lisbon
"Tronies" at Salmagundi Gallery in New York (2023)
"Wish You Were Here" at Dalek Art Gallery in Antwerp (2022).
Nationally (in Italy), I had my work shown at Galleria delle Arti (Rome) for the double-solo show "Personale" (2025).
Also I have participated in Art Collection at Palazzo Pisani Revedin in Venice (2021), Private at the Accademia di Belle Arti di San Pietroburgo in Florence (2020), and collaborated with Contemporary Cluster in Rome (2022). My professional trajectory also includes a collaboration with Tevere Art Gallery in Rome (2019–2020) and commissioned works for Mizuno’s launch event (Milan, 2023).