ABOUT TILLY
Tilly (b. 1997, London) is a self-taught contemporary painter based in the UK. The AuDHD artist studied English Language & Literature at the University of Oxford (BA & MSt), before working in journalism. Tilly left her former career in April 2023 and began painting full-time shortly after.
Tilly is best known for creating playful, expressive abstract artworks as well as figurative paintings characterised by a bold, naive and minimalist style. As of 2025, she has been focusing more acutely on text works. These most frequently take the form of scrawled iPhone notes written in digital red pencil, or acrylic paint stick on cardstock and canvas.
Tilly works intuitively, using acrylics alongside a variety of other materials. Drawing and collage support a practice centred on curiosity and play. Exploring her neurodivergence is highly important to her work. She is endlessly inspired by children's artworks and aims to embody a similar level of freedom in her own creative sessions. She is right-handed but often uses her left in support of this goal.
Tilly's favourite genre of music is electropop. She regularly listens to Mallrat, Charli xcx, IDER, Oklou, Namasenda and Cub Sport. When painting in her studio, she often opts for classical music or jazz on her CD player instead. She is a deep thinker and reads widely. Currently, she is alternating between HEA romances, fantasy novels and books on philosophy, psychology and/or self-improvement.
Her hobbies include woodland walks, junk journalling and making (wonky) ceramics. She loves yin yoga, ecstatic dance, hot baths and acquiring new information on YouTube, Spotify and beyond. Turning her art into merch for her site is another favourite past time. She drinks a lot of water and meditates most mornings and nights.
Tilly's first studio was in Herne Hill, London. She now lives and works in Stroud, Gloucestershire. She was diagnosed with ADHD in December 2022 (aged 25) and Autism Spectrum Disorder in March 2025 (aged 28).
For artist statement, please enquire via tillytrevitt@gmail.com
- Participating in Site Festival Open Studios (Gloucestershire, June '25)
- Awarded Site Festival Artists Under 30 Bursary (5 total, April-June '25)
- Group exhibition (physical), 'A Celebration Of Neurodiversity' (Intersect Arts Collective, Sands End Arts & Community Centre, 16/17 March ’25 - POSTPONED) - Police Line
- Work selected as official artwork of Oh Wonder's Technicolour Beat (10 Years On) (Spring '25) - September Is A Chimera
- Enrolled in 'Contemporary Drawing', New Brewery Arts (Spring Term '25)
- Published in 'Issue 4', Megazine (Dec 24/Jan '25) - 5D
- Longlisted for 'Visual Art Open 24' in the 'Painting & Mixed Media & Printing' category, Visual Artists’ Association (July '24) - Soul Dance
- Group exhibition (physical), 'UK Open', Tarpey Gallery (July-Aug '24) - Good Vibrations
- Group exhibition (physical), 'Seven is a Secret', J/M Gallery x Week 45 Collective (July '24) - Bird Of Paradise
- Interviewed for/spotlighted by GetScene (June '24)
- Group exhibition (physical), 'LOOK IF YOU WANT', Blue Hour Studios x Verity Wooley (May '24) - 5D and ADHD
- Showcased at North London Makers' Market (May '24)
- Interviewed for ArtByArtists, '329 - Tilly Trevitt' (April '24)
- Group exhibition (physical), 'ART FUSION', Momentum Coffee (Feb-Mar '24) - Playtime Isn't Over and Seeing Red
- Group exhibition (physical), 'January Exhibition', VVArts Studio (Jan '24) - Portal, Untitled Blue Abstract, everything! is! fine!, and i wanna make art, i wanna love, i wanna make NOISE
- Published in '99 Future Blue Chip Artists for 2024' printed edition, Artsted (Jan '24) - Heartstrong and Where The Wild Rose Grows
- Selected for '99 Future Blue Chip Artists for 2024’, Artsted (Jan '24)
- Group exhibition (physical), 'Future Stars', Holy Art Gallery (Dec '23-Jan '24) - Heartstrong
- Group exhibition (virtual), 'Euphoria', Virtual Artists (Dec '23) - everything! is! fine!
- Group exhibition (virtual), 'Born To Be Wild', Virtual Artists (Oct-Nov '23) - Playtime Isn't Over, Koi Pond, Where The Wild Rose Grows
- Graduated from University of Oxford, Master of Studies in English (1830-1914) (Distinction/First, 2019-2020). Topics = In the Shadow of Shelley: The Bodleian’s Keats-Related Relics on the Shaping of Keats’s Posthumous Reputation (B-Course); Ilya Kaminsky’s ‘Poetry Of Witness’: Deaf Republic as ‘Living Text’ (C-Course); Reading For Wellbeing: Re-framing Wordsworth’s Model of Reading Landscape for ‘the Anthropocene' (C-Course); ‘Expect to be immensely disappointed with the close… But look back to the Prelude’: Epigraphs, Readers and Counterfactual Narratives in Daniel Deronda (Dissertation)
- Poem published in The Mays 28 (Oxford & Cambridge Literary Anthology, Varsity Publications Ltd, '20) - Postpartum
- Poem commended in Dial-A-Poem National Student Competition and published in Dial-A-Poem app (Nottingham Trent University, Crossed Lines Project, '20) - Phoning Home
- Graduated from University of Oxford, Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature (2:1 with First in Dissertation, 2016-2019). Dissertation Topic = “They shut me up in Prose -”: Constraint and Liberation in Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts
- Poem published in ASH (Oxford University Poetry Society Magazine, Winter '17) - belief is not a dirty word
- Awarded Academic Scholarship (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, '17)
- Poem longlisted for Bridport Poetry Prize (UK, Spring/Summer '16) - Cathy
Photos: Serena Bolton Photography