Eve Pettitt

Eve Pettitt is an English artist, living and working in London. Her practice explores the exquisite wonders of nature and the human spirit, delving into both their presence and absence in space. She searches to crystallise on canvas the unselfconscious present state of being of the natural world; a sense of mortality clashes with vivid embodiment. Eve’s work is often autobiographical, delving into memory and reflecting her state of mind. She seeks to convey the heartfelt succour that nature gives to loneliness and solitude. Her oil paintings are songs to felt-sensations experienced in nature, they are odes full of gratitude and respect to the landscape and the natural world.

Eve’s practice is deeply concerned with the poetry of colour. She explores what happens when two colours meet, how they dance side by side and what occurs at the borderline. Drawing inspiration from the shallow planes of modernism, she builds form through geometric shapes, clear facets and defined edges. Each of her paintings expresses a personal approach to the dynamic articulation of colour, and this ravenous enquiry results in works that are exuberant and deeply expressive.

The Heatherley School of Fine Art, Chelsea, London
The Royal Drawing School, London
Exeter University
Aix-en-Provence University

Recent Exhibitions in UK

2025:
100/50 Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery
Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition
Clyde and Co Art Prize Exhibition
Macfarlanes Art Prize Exhibition
2024:
Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
50/50 Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery
Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition
2023:
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize
Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition
The Shape of Shadows, Fitzrovia Gallery
Chelsea A-Z
2022:
Chelsea in Colour
Chiswick in Pictures
Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition
Triptych Exhibition, The Bakery Gallery
Atlantic Contemporary Art Exhibition at Haworth Art Gallery
2021:
Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
Chelsea Arts Society Annual Exhibition
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2020:
Chelsea Arts Society Annual Exhibition
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
Chiswick in Pictures
Diana Armfield Drawing from Observation Exhibition
2019:
Green and Stone Summer Exhibition
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries
Chelsea Arts Society, Annual Exhibition
The Artistry House, Preston, Lancashire
Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
2018:
Jackson's Emerging Artist Prize
Artist in Residence, Riverside, Hamme...