Eve Pettitt

Painting in oils from observation, imagination and memory, Eve's work explores the exquisite wonders of nature and the human form, delving into both their presence and absence in space. Influenced by her lifelong studies of yogic teaching and spiritual thought, she searches to crystallise on canvas the unselfconscious present state of being of the natural world; a sense of mortality clashes with vivid embodiment. Her work is delivered with potent emotion and is often autobiographical, exploring memory and reflecting her state of mind.

Eve's practice is fundamentally concerned with colours and their relationships, she explores what happens when two colours meet, how they dance side by side and what occurs at the borderline. Colour is both the subject and the form in her paintings. 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. 

Eve studied at The Heatherley School of Fine Art and The Royal Drawing School, her work is held in private collections worldwide. In 2025 Eve was commissioned to paint a collection of 14 Stations of The Cross for St Etheldreda's Church in Fulham, London.  She is an elected member of the Chelsea Art Society, was awarded the New English Art Club Scholarship and was selected for the The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize twice in 2023 and 2017.  Eve has exhibited widely including with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Society of Women Artists, National Open Art, The New English Art Club, Chelsea Art Society and Jackson’s Painting Prize.  She took part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and her portrait was chosen by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.