Loretta Yussuff

Paintings

Paintings exploring psychological and emotional states.

Oil painting by Loretta Yussuff showing a group of young men at a live DJ set in King’s Cross, with two figures rapping into a microphone.

Psalm 1: Reload It, 2025

Oil on canvas, 120 x 60cm

© Loretta Yussuff

woman getting dressed through an arched window while a skeleton rests bored on her shoulder

Psalm 2: Death Waiting, 2025

Oil on canvas, 120 x 65cm

© Loretta Yussuff

Circular triptych on wooden panels showing a central portrait of Damilola Taylor, flanked by CCTV images, with silver thread connecting the panels.

Psalm 3: Damilola, 2025

Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 42.5cm

© Loretta Yussuff. Photo: Point101

Figures mourning around a body bag, painted on a double-layered canvas with a slit revealing a gold leaf under-layer

Mourning in Gaza, 2025

Oil on wood panel, 21 x 15cm

© Loretta Yussuff

Green monochrome painting on wood panel with an arched form, showing the side profile of a young man laughing while seated on steps.

AJ Laughing, 2025

Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 48.5cm

© Loretta Yussuff

Return of the Lost Lamb, 2024

Return of the Lost Lamb, 2024

Oil on canvas, 40 x 40cm

© Loretta Yussuff

The Wolf and the Sheep, 2024

The Wolf and the Sheep, 2024

Oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm

© Loretta Yussuff

Father and Son, 2023

Father and Son, 2023

Oil on canvas, 26.5 x 31.5cm

© Loretta Yussuff

Little Me, 2022

Little Me, 2022

Oil on canvas, 44 x 54cm

© Loretta Yussuff

Works on paper

A smaller group of works on paper and print-based pieces.

AJ Freestyling, 2025

AJ Freestyling, 2025

Linocut with black ink on paper

© Loretta Yussuff

Money Tree, 2025

Money Tree, 2025

Linocut with black ink on paper

© Loretta Yussuff