Trixie Pitts

I'm an abstract painter currently living in Nashville, Tennessee.

I started my painting career as a portrait painter because I had an eye for detail but always wished I could "get more feeling" into my paintings. Only when I began to paint for me rather than to please other people did this begin to happen. Painting for me is like meditation where things come up unannounced and unexpected. I try to accept, trust and value whatever appears. Painting on big canvases is what I love so I can move with the paint, and I never paint without listening to music. I can’t imagine painting sitting down! I paint fast, to keep ahead of my thoughts. Sometimes when I'm finished, I have little idea how I got there. When I look at a painting and say to myself, “How did I do that?” then it's been a good day in the studio!

Originally Canadian, I have lived in Europe and Asia as well as the US, so I have been blessed with a life of travel and it is one of my sources of inspiration. I don't paint until I return, but seem to absorb the colors, atmospheres and vibes of places that affect me on an emotional level. My other source if inspiration is more internal and stems from struggles to overcome a very difficult early family dynamic.

My favor...

University of Toronto
Art Students League of New York: Larry Poons, Kikuo Saito

2025 Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, High Stakes Room
2025 Laguna Niguel Hotel, Permanent Collection
2024 BNA Hilton, Nashville Airport, Permanent Collection
2024 NAWA NYC, Annual NAWA Members Exhibition
2023 Merritt Mansion Gallery, Nashville, “Up in Arms”
2023 134th Annual NAWA Members Exhibition
2022 Galerie Tangerine, Nashville
2021 The Other Art Fair Virtual Edition, Brooklyn Expo
2020 “MBA Art Show”, Nashville
2019 Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, “Kicking Abstract and Taking Names”
2018 AI Corp. Interiors, Nashville, “Trixie Pitts Featured Artist”
2018 Industrious Nashville, “Trixie Pitts – Featured Artist”
2018 W. D. Schock, Nashville, “Trixie Pitts – Featured Artist”
2019 NAWA Gallery, NYC, “Pushing Paint”
2018 “MBA Art Show”, Nashville
2018 NAWA, “Small Works Summer”
2018 NAWA, “Abstract, The Space Between”
2018 Ellen Taylor Design, Columbia, SC, “Artavista”
2017 "King Woman" ArtLeadHer Pen+Brush, NYC
2017 Renasant Bank, Nashville
2016 The Conference Board, 845 3rd Ave, New York
2016 135W50 Lobby, Trixie Pitts New Paintings
2015 Trixie Pitts Paintings I Love You Bedford, Williamsburg
2014 Squire Sanders, 30 Rockefeller Plaza NYC:
A.T. Kearney - Permanent Collection 2014

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