Egypt
Coral Bridge Gallery
Artworks by Ingy Zahran
About The Gallery
- Coral Bridge Contemporary is an online gallery based in Egypt, dedicated to introducing a new generation of contemporary Egyptian artists to an international audience. We work with emerging and mid-career artists whose practices combine authenticity, strong artistic vision, and contemporary relevance. Our mission is to create meaningful connections between artists and collectors worldwide, making contemporary Egyptian art more visible and accessible beyond regional borders. The gallery focuses on original paintings and mixed-media works, carefully selecting artists whose voices contribute to today's global conversation in contemporary art. At Coral Bridge Contemporary, we believe that collecting art is not only about owning an object, it is about supporting creative voices and preserving cultural dialogue.
About the artists
Ingy Zahran (b. 1985, Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian contemporary abstract artist living and working in Cairo. Her artistic practice is shaped by an unusual dialogue between engineering precision and intuitive expression. Holding a Master of Science in Engineering and an MBA in Project Management, Zahran spent years working in technical design before dedicating herself fully to painting. Although self-taught, she has developed a distinctive visual language that seamlessly combines geometric structure with organic movement, reflecting the balance between analytical thinking and emotional freedom. Working primarily with acrylics and mixed media, Zahran creates layered compositions that exp...
Enas Sakr (b. 1981, Egypt) is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and academic whose multidisciplinary practice explores human experience, identity and the social realities of contemporary Egyptian society. She graduated in 2003 and received her PhD in 2019, specialising in contemporary art criticism and art history. Alongside her artistic practice, Enas Sakr has worked as an academic lecturer at the Higher Institute of Applied Arts in 6th of October since 2008, teaching art criticism and art history. Her professional experience also includes art research, cultural education, art workshops, exhibition organisation and the publication of critical and academic writing on Egyptian and inte...
Assad Del Cor is a Belarusian-born artist, art conservator and educator based in Egypt. His professional career in the arts began in 1994 as a painter and conservator at the P. V. Maslenikov Art Museum in Mogilev, Belarus, where he worked with the restoration of paintings and later with icons, murals and historical artworks in churches and monasteries. His artistic practice is informed by a deep understanding of classical painting, historical art and conservation, while his long-term life and work in Egypt have become an important influence on his visual language. Since 2000, he has also worked extensively as an art educator, conducting workshops and teaching painting and drawing in Belar...
Enas Omara is an Egyptian visual artist and illustrator with over three decades of professional experience in fine art, watercolor painting, and visual storytelling. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University, she is a member of the Egyptian Syndicate of Plastic Artists and is based in Giza, Egypt. Working primarily in watercolor, Omara explores the relationship between nature, architecture, cultural heritage, and everyday life. Her paintings capture the distinctive character of places, from coastal landscapes, rocky shores, fishermen, and boats to historic streets and traditional architecture. Through her sensitive use of colour, transparency, and light, she conveys the at...
Marianne Fanous (b. 1985, Cairo, Egypt) is a self-taught contemporary Egyptian artist who lives and works in Cairo. Although she holds a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy and Biotechnology, she has cultivated her artistic practice independently through years of experimentation, intuition, and an enduring commitment to creative exploration. Marianne Fanous draws inspiration from her Christian faith, Egyptian identity, the country's landscapes and agricultural heritage, and the organic forms found in nature—particularly palm trees and the rhythms of the natural world. Working through expressive abstraction, she explores themes of creation, hope, belonging, and transformation, creating paintings...
Marinelle is a contemporary artist based in Hurghada, Egypt, whose practice is deeply connected to the sea and the distinctive landscapes of the Red Sea coast. Born in Egypt, Marinelle draws inspiration from the turquoise waters, shifting light, sandy shores and distant horizons surrounding her home. Her paintings explore the quiet emotional presence of the sea - its movement, reflections, changing colours and moments of stillness. Working primarily with painting, she creates atmospheric seascapes that combine careful observation of nature with a personal, expressive approach to light and colour. Her works invite the viewer to pause, breathe and experience the sense of freedom and calm found...
Masha Joy (b. 2003, Egypt) is a self-taught contemporary artist whose practice explores emotional intensity, identity and the experience of becoming. Working primarily with portraits and figurative scenes, she uses the human figure as a vehicle for mood, tension and inner movement. Her work is particularly drawn to adolescence and the transitional states surrounding it - a period marked by vulnerability, contradiction, self-discovery and emotional intensity. Rather than depicting emotions literally, Joy uses colour as an expressive language through which inner states become visible. Her figures often appear quiet or restrained, while saturated colour and expressive compositions reveal ...
Mohamed Nabil is an Egyptian visual artist and Professor of Graphic Arts based in Alexandria, Egypt. His practice explores geometric abstraction as a means of investigating space, perception, and the relationship between opposing forces. Through carefully constructed compositions, he examines the tension between presence and absence, order and ambiguity, darkness and light, transforming a reduced visual vocabulary into complex spatial experiences. Trained in graphic arts, Mohamed Nabil holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Minia University, a master's degree in Fine Arts, and a PhD in Fine Arts specialising in Graphic Arts. In 2024, he was appointed Professor of Graphic Arts at Mansoura Univ...
Mohamed Taha (b. 2002, Saudi Arabia) is a Sudanese digital artist based in Khartoum, Sudan. Entirely self-taught, he developed his artistic practice through independent exploration of digital media, using experimentation as both a technical and conceptual foundation. His early relocation from Saudi Arabia to Sudan profoundly shaped his understanding of place, identity, and cultural belonging—subjects that continue to inform his work. Alongside his artistic practice, Mohamed Taha studies Psychology and French Language at the Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum. Working primarily in digital painting, Mohamed Taha documents the rhythms of everyday Sudanese life, transforming ordinary mom...
Noran Mansour is a contemporary Egyptian artist whose work explores identity, womanhood, memory and the emotional landscapes of everyday life. Drawing on the visual language of Egyptian and Arab culture, she creates expressive compositions in which women, families and intimate human relationships become carriers of stories, memory and cultural identity. Her paintings occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, combining simplified human forms with vibrant colour, expressive brushwork, ornamental patterns and elements inspired by Arabic calligraphy. Rather than pursuing conventional realism, she uses distortion, repetition and decorative detail to capture the emotional truth of her ...
Olga Onopko (b. 1974, Russia) is a contemporary artist and art educator currently based in Egypt. Her practice combines a strong foundation in academic realism with elements of Impressionism, Expressionism and abstraction. Working primarily with painting, she explores landscape, colour, atmosphere and the emotional perception of place, creating works in which recognisable imagery emerges through energetic mark-making, layered colour and experimental surfaces. Onopko received her initial artistic education at a Children's Art School, followed by five years at Voronezh Art College, where she graduated with distinction and received a commendation from the College Council. She subsequently grad...
Samar Hisham is an Egyptian contemporary visual artist, born in 1998 and based in Mansoura, Egypt. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Arabic Language from Mansoura University and has developed her artistic practice independently.Since 2023, Hisham has focused on relief art, acrylic painting and mixed media, combining abstract impressionist approaches with highly tactile, sculptural surfaces. Working primarily with acrylics and heavy impasto paste on canvas, wood and linen, she builds layered compositions in which texture becomes an essential part of the visual language.At the centre of Hisham's practice is an interest in intangible human experiences that are increasingly difficult to preserve ...
Teya Noor is a self-taught Egyptian contemporary abstract artist whose practice explores the intersection of geometric abstraction and the essence of landscape. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, she creates minimalist compositions that reduce visual experience to its most fundamental elements, color, proportion, rhythm, and space. Her work is rooted in the belief that abstraction can communicate what representation cannot. Whether through structured geometric forms or expansive horizontal compositions, Teya Noor seeks to evoke atmosphere rather than depict place, allowing the familiar to dissolve into emotional perception. Guided by intuition and a refined sense of balance, she build...
Galina Lenskaya is a visual artist and art educator whose practice centers on watercolor painting, architectural subjects, and the visual character of places. Born in Kaluga, Russia, in 1978, she began her artistic education at the city's children's art school, where she studied classical drawing. After moving to Hurghada, Egypt, in 2001, she eventually returned to art, undertaking further studies in academic drawing, watercolor, pastel, anatomy, and perspective at Kalacheva Art School. Now based in Hurghada, Lenskaya works across a range of subjects, from historic architecture and ancient Egyptian monuments to Nile landscapes, waterscapes, urban environments, and still life. Her ongoing ser...
Tatsiana Yelistratava is a Belarusian contemporary artist based in Hurghada, Egypt. Originally trained in medicine, she later devoted her practice entirely to visual art, developing a distinctive mixed-media approach that explores resilience, identity, and emotional transformation. Working primarily with acrylic, collage, and cotton thread, Yelistratava creates expressive figurative paintings through a unique process in which each work is first completed, then deliberately torn apart and carefully reconstructed by hand. Rather than concealing the fractures, she preserves them as an essential part of the final composition. In selected works, cotton threads become a second visual language, sym...
Mona Omar (b. 1989, Egypt) is a contemporary Egyptian artist, researcher, and lecturer whose figurative practice explores the emotional memory of human experience. Rather than depicting memories as fixed records of the past, she investigates how they evolve over time - fading, fragmenting, and quietly reshaping themselves through emotion. Her distinctive visual language is characterized by monochromatic figurative painting inspired by vintage cinema and family photographs, interrupted by luminous fluorescent forms that cut through the image like emotional echoes. Figures gradually dissolve into expressive brushstrokes, their features suspended between appearance and disappearance, suggesting...
