ABOUT

Tilly Trevitt (b. 1997, London) is a contemporary British fine artist working across abstract, figurative, and text-based forms. Self-taught as a painter, she has rapidly established a visual language that merges emotional intensity with intimacy and playful conceptual clarity.

Trevitt’s work is informed by an academic background in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (BA, MA, MSt), followed by a career in journalism and digital media. In early 2023, she transitioned to visual art, developing a process-led practice that balances instinct with intention. As an AuDHD artist, Trevitt prioritises self-accessibility. She uses studio time to engage with previously shamed aspects of herself and explore unmasked expression in its fullest form.

Sharp, diaristic, and deliberately unpolished, Trevitt's work incorporates found materials alongside atmospheric washes and bold, vandalistic written elements. Her pieces are collected in the UK and internationally, including in the US and Australasia. She lives and works in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds. Her studio is open to visitors by appointment.

 

 

"I create mixed media paintings that explore identity and inner transformation. My practice transmutes memory and lived experience into tactile emotional landscapes. I integrate found and inherited objects such as letters, photographs and keepsakes. Expanding my visual language in this way supports me to process complex emotional weather and philosophical questions.

My work is spiritual and ritualistic, but informally so. My pieces are deconstructed spells. Messy, instinctive records of process, documenting an individual’s navigation through personal and collective trauma, inherited and limiting beliefs.

I step out of the way as much as I can when making, allowing intuition to take over. I embrace chaos and spontaneity, while carefully considering composition and structure to maintain equilibrium. This mirrors my experience in the world as a neurodivergent (AuDHD) person.

Each canvas accumulates narrative through layering and revision, rather than progressing linearly toward a fixed image. The final composition emerges through cycles of making, erasure and return. I approach them as material texts. Organic forms, gestural marks and recurring motifs are a private code offered up by my subconscious. Meaning unfurls with time and attention.

I am influenced by artists such as Philip Guston, Ken Done and Tracey Emin." 

 

EXHIBITIONS 

2026 ROOM FOR MORE, SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud, UK (Upcoming)

2025 SITE, SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud, UK

SITE Festival, Stroud Studios, Stroud, UK

Secret Postcard Exhibition, Under the Edge Arts, Wotton-Under-Edge, UK

A Celebration of Neurodiversity, Intersect Arts Collective x Sands End Community Centre, London, UK

2024 UK Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, UK

Seven is a Secret, Week 45 Collective x J/M Gallery, London, UK

LOOK IF YOU WANT, Blue Hour Studios, London, UK

AWARDS 

2025 Artists Under 30 Bursary, SITE Festival, Gloucestershire, UK

2024 Visual Art Open, Visual Artists' Association, London, UK (Longlisted)

99 Future Blue Chip Artists, Artsted, London, UK

REPRESENTATION 

Candita Clayton Gallery, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, USA

PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES 

2025 Technicolour Beat: 10 Years On, Oh Wonder, London, United Kingdom (Licensed as Official Single Artwork)

Loupe Art Streaming, Atlanta, United States (Licensed as Digital Artwork)

'Issue 4', Megazine, London, United Kingdom (Featured)

2024 '329 - Tilly Trevitt', ArtByArtists (Featured)

'Follower Spotlight - Tilly Trevitt', GetScene (Featured)

EDUCATION

2025 Contemporary Drawing, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, UK

2021 NCTJ Diploma In Multimedia Journalism, News Associates, London, UK

2020 Master of Studies in English (1830-1914), University of Oxford, UK

2019 Bachelor of Arts in English Language & Literature, University of Oxford, UK