Myriam Lemon: Ceramics, Paintings and Tufted Works Shaped by Morocco

Myriam Lemon is a self-taught French-Moroccan artist and illustrator whose practice moves between ceramics, painting, illustration and tufting. After studying business and pastry making in Lille, she moved to Tangier intending to open a pastry shop. While the space was being renovated, she returned to drawing, and Morocco became the basis of a wider visual practice.

Everyday objects as cultural scenes

Lemon’s work transforms food, domestic objects and street life into compact narratives. Breakfast Teapot combines a fried egg, fruit and a small figure within the form of a vessel. Other ceramics include Mr Seitoun, a portrait-like plate, and a speckled jug whose dark green and yellow decoration recalls cauliflower leaves.

Her painted and illustrated scenes extend the same visual language. Grocers, shoe shiners, kitchens, pastries and Ramadan tables appear in dense compositions, while works such as Lemon Pie au Citron and Grandma’s Roasted Strawberry Cake connect food with family memory and domestic space.

Morocco as subject and method

The colours, landscapes and histories of Morocco are central to Lemon’s work. She describes the meeting of African, Arab and European influences as closely connected to her own French-Moroccan identity. Family stories, walks, supermarkets, cooking and travel supply material for sketches that are later developed as paintings, ceramics or tufted pieces.

Her subjects include Chefchaouen, Tangier, whitewashed houses, green landscapes, women, donkeys and ordinary commercial spaces. Together they present a Morocco shaped by daily life rather than familiar tourist stereotypes. Across media, the work uses colour, humour and carefully observed detail to connect personal memory with a broader cultural image.

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Artist: Myriam Lemon
Practice: Ceramics, painting, illustration and tufting
Context: Tangier, Morocco
Background: Self-taught; studied business and pastry making in Lille
Source material: Creative Boom