Loretta Yussuff is a British figurative artist of Nigerian-Lithuanian heritage, born and based in Brixton, South London. Working primarily in oil paint on canvas, her practice explores the psychological and existential dimensions of ordinary human experience.

Through figuration, colour, and spatial construction, her work examines the tension between interior life and communal experience: the ways people exist simultaneously within community and within the solitude of their own perceptions. Colour operates as a form of psychological mapping, transforming ordinary life into spaces of emotional and existential weight.

Paintings are often structured through states of stillness and partial emotional access, where figures appear physically near yet psychologically distant. Her practice extends beyond the painted surface into material and spatial construction. Through layering, cutting, threadwork, and shaped canvases, the canvas becomes an active site of psychological and physical construction. The recurring use of the arch, drawn from Christian architectural traditions, structures the work through framing and containment, asking what is worthy of monumentalising.

Yussuff studied Fashion Design at the University for the Creative Arts (BA, 2020) before developing her painting practice through independent study. She completed an MA in Fine Art: Painting at the University of the Arts London in 2025.