Lyba Leona is a Northern California born, award winning artist, based in the marshes of Madisonville, LA. A Fine Arts major with a painting concentration at SELU in Hammond, Lyba has been slowly gaining notoriety in the Louisiana art scene. In March of 2025, five of her works were selected amongst hundreds of entries, to be a part of the Juried Student Exhibition at SELU. More recently celebrated by New Orleans’s own Terrance Osborne, Lyba Leona’s autobiographical piece, “Long Tall Sally” placed second in this summer’s “Fragments of Imagination” juried competition. Several of her pieces will be featured at OTAC’s White Linen night this August in Slidell, LA. Lyba Leona has had her art internationally published in Kinetic Medical Journal, and her piece “Godfather Death” was handpicked for the British Podcast ‘Grimm Reading’ in 2020. She has also worked with various musicians on commissioned album and poster art. Highly dedicated and creating most of her waking hours, this young artist is one to watch.

Lyba creates in acrylic, gouache, pen & ink, charcoal/ pastel, and graphite. While her works range in theme from esoteric to lighthearted, she weaves a whimsical and dreamlike thread through each of her pieces. Pulling influences from the West Coast Psychedelic poster artist Victor Moscoso, as well as surrealists Leanora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, her art is also deeply inspired by the mysticism of poet William Blake and magician/philosopher Aleister Crowley. She has always had a vibrant imagination, and  had incredibly vivid dreams since childhood. Naturally, they follow her into the waking world, and manifest in many wonderful ways.