Calypso Bene is a London-based, self-taught multimedia artist working across oil painting, sculpture, and installation. Her practice centers on themes of memory, dissociation, and emotional vulnerability, beautiful as they are raw, shaped by lived experiences of trauma and healing. 

Painting became both a purpose and a lifeline for Bene when she began creating in 2019. Her process is instinctive and immersive, often entering a state of flow where the work channels itself through her. Unplanned, unfiltered, but deeply felt. 

Each work holds a specific emotional imprint. The resulting pieces feel like fragments of memory, suspended between reality and imagination, yet softened by femininity. Her signature use of closed eyes, muted expression, and raw mark-making captures the dissociative state. Each portrait appears to exist in a space between dreaming and remembering, vulnerable yet intimate.

Since starting her practice, Calypso has solo exhibited in London, Monaco, and Spain. She has been commissioned by public figures, collectors, and interior designers and collaborated with brands such as L'Oréal Paris and Nobu Monte Carlo. Her work has been acquired by collectors across Europe and Asia, with growing international demand.

Calypso’s art is a reclamation of softness in a fractured world. It sits with the pain, it remembers how it felt.