Artelier, December 2024

10 Fine Art Investment Artists to Buy in 2025

Like Alice slipping into wonderland, fashion-student turned fine art painter Emilia Momen fell into the art world guided solely by her curiosity and wonder for painting. Beginning in 2021 with an impromptu show at the highly-anticipated Royal Academy Summer Fair, Momen soon caught the attention of renowned gallery and talent-scout Ronchini Gallery culminating in her solo show in Mayfair, London.

Momen's fine art paintings feel both refined in technical skill and otherwordly. Her paintings combine architectural precision with a sophisticated painterly lyricism that calls to mind Magritte’s metaphysical quietness and the ghostly forms of Degas’ Dancers. Figures emerge as though conjured from dreamscapes: bathers recline atop mossy cliffs, dancers float upwards from shadowed floors. Space itself becomes unmoored—swimmers dive into endless blue, bodies float in gauzy white that neither begins nor ends. In her latest fine art series, Momen embraces a contemporary edge, shifting focus to glamorous yet enigmatic subjects: lovers, strangers, friends caught in ambiguous light, their glossy shadows anchoring them to vast, unmarked voids. There’s an exquisite tension—her figures appear poised, relaxed, yet somehow suspended on the fine line between ease and nothingness. Are they sunbathing on earth, or perched at the edge of an abyss?

For those looking to invest in fine art, Momen offers an exciting proposition: an artist whose sparkling vision lingers long after the gaze shifts, with an evolving talent destined to leave its mark on the future of contemporary painting.


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