EMBROIDERY ON PAPER

LANDSCAPES

Lola's landscape artworks transform natural scenery into minimal, colour-driven compositions that feel like abstracted memories rather than physical places. Across her landscape works, she typically uses digital illustration as a base with embroidery elements layered on top.

CITIES

Lola explores urban environments through simplified forms, strong colour palettes, and a mix of digital and textile techniques. Grids, repetition, and stitching suggest cities as organised but restrictive systems, with a focus on architecture rather than people.

Night sky filled with numerous bright stars above buildings with illuminated windows.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Lola transforms road signs into tactile, hand-stitched conceptual artworks that reflect the solitude and social dynamics of our time. The works might appear crisp and graphic at first glance, but the embroidery reveals the artist’s deliberate intersection of line, texture, and meaning.

A triangular road sign indicating a roundabout, decorated with green and black pins arranged in circular arrow patterns.

Close-up of a combination of materials, including a screw, a piece of black fabric, a piece of red textured material, a strip of woven rope, and a wooden stick.

Close-up of a metal wire mesh or grid with a dark background, and part of a blue label or sticker visible in the top left corner.

EMBROIDERY ON FABRIC

Close-up of embroidered artwork showing a hand spraying water from a green spray bottle onto green fern leaves.

Embroidery of two wooden clothespins hanging on a black thread.

Close-up embroidery of a landscape with blue sky, yellow grass, and beach cabins.

Embroidery of a landscape with power lines, trees, hills, and a fence, featuring yellow, blue, and red sections.

DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION

Visit Lola’s digital illustration portfolio at GETTY IMAGES:

LOLA ORTEGA (LOLON) AT GETTYIMAGES.COM