Elena Petrovna Skuin (Russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Скуи́нь, Latvian: Jeļena Skujiņa; 2 April 1908 – 12 February 1986) was a Soviet, Russian–Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher.

In 1931, Elena Skuin comes to Leningrad, worked as an artist at the Stalin Metalworks, then studied at the Institute for Advanced education of Art workers.

In 1939, Elena Skuin graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Alexander Osmerkin´s personal art studio.

Her graduate work was a painting named "Lesson of the circle, studying the Naval Science" (Museum of Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg).

In 1960s Elena Skuin made some creative journeys in search of material for paintings, including her native Kuban land.

A color of objects, ordinary and familiar, becomes self-sufficient, and received semi-mystical importance, with a deep richness of overtones, with a broad associative, emotional content.

Such works as "Still Life with bluebell" (1969), "Old English china and pineapple" (1971), "Red Corner" (1974), and others can be attributed her as outstanding master of watercolors.

Owning a variety of watercolor techniques, she created a vivid memorable images close contemporary of the objective world, passing its aesthetic value and giving warmth things that make our everyday environment.