Victoria Kirtley

Victoria has drawn and painted for as long as she can remember. For some, creativity is not a choice but something instinctive - something woven into the bones.

Although Victoria achieved the highest grades in art at school, she was advised to pursue a more “secure” vocation by career advisors. At seventeen, impressionable and pragmatic, she took that advice and built a corporate career spanning more than twenty years. It was valuable, formative and grounding, but art was always there, waiting patiently in the wings.

Now, as a mother and with the perspective that experience brings, she has returned to what has always felt most natural - creating. Establishing herself as a wildlife artist has been both instinctive and quietly defiant - a reminder that it is never too late to follow what calls you. The decision to step fully into her practice during 2024, was not only personal; it is something she hopes sets an example to her children - and to others - that a creative life, or following your passion, is not indulgent, but courageous.

Wildlife has always shaped Victoria’s world. Today, she combines her lifelong love of wildlife and the natural world with a contemporary fine art practice rooted in observation, symbolism and emot...

BA (Hons) with merit.

MAP pop-up shop, St Leonards, Exeter
23 - 29 November 2025

The Cafe, Topsham
Throughout September 2025

Exeter Cathedral Art & Crafts Festival 2025
3rd - 5th July 2025

Artex, Buckfast Abbey
31st July - 17th August 2025

Cartridges, Exeter
1st October - 9th Jan 2025

Bizzy Be Gallery, Exeter
28th June - early September 2024

Park Life, Exeter
1st March - 31st April 2024