Elena Behrakis (b.1970; Lowell, MA. United States) is a Greek American visual artist who works primarily in oil, ink, and Japanese watercolor. Her highly expressive figurative works are characterized by their rich texture, energy, and visible brushstrokes and marks. Elena’s style of painting is intuitive heightening the emotion in her pieces. The work is her direct relation to insulation, strength, invisibility, radiance, and vulnerability within the female experience.

With an extensive training in classical figurative art from Boston University and Yale University’s Norfolk School of Art, Elena strives to grasp the essence of complex human emotions and physicality through color, light and gesture. She works in such a way that there is no opportunity to create a formula, as each mark is an unexpected reaction to her mind overflowing onto the surface.

After graduate school, Elena stepped away from creating art and spent many years as an entrepreneur in the beauty industry, as well as focusing on her family. Prior to her break, her work was shown in galleries and shows throughout parts of the United States.