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Trixie Pitts
United States
Artist highlights
- Prizewinner
- Covered by the Press
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
- Dimensions : 36x448in
About this artwork
Under the Surface explores the quiet space between emergence and dissolution. Layers of pale blue, turquoise, cobalt, and soft green drift across the canvas in translucent veils, revealing and obscuring traces beneath them. The painting moves between atmosphere and structure, with submerged gestures and softened edges suggesting something sensed rather than fully seen.
Built through multiple layers of oil paint and oil paint stick, the surface holds… both movement and stillness. Areas of luminous blue open into deeper passages while marks appear briefly before dissolving back into the field. The composition invites slow looking, allowing subtle shifts of color and texture to unfold over time.
Part of the Within series, this work reflects an ongoing exploration of memory, perception, and emotional space — not as fixed narratives, but as layered and changing states held just below visibility.
Built through multiple layers of oil paint and oil paint stick, the surface holds… both movement and stillness. Areas of luminous blue open into deeper passages while marks appear briefly before dissolving back into the field. The composition invites slow looking, allowing subtle shifts of color and texture to unfold over time.
Part of the Within series, this work reflects an ongoing exploration of memory, perception, and emotional space — not as fixed narratives, but as layered and changing states held just below visibility.
Trixie Pitts
United States
Credentials
- Prizewinner
- Covered by the Press
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« The practice of giving up on perfection and accepting the beauty of the unexpected when I paint has helped me do the same in my everyday life. »
Trixie Pitts is an abstract painter whose work unfolds intuitively through gesture, layering, and restraint. Her paintings emerge from lived experience and a process that values presence over planning, allowing color and movement to guide the image as it develops.
Working primarily in oil and often at a large scale, she begins with color rather than form, allowing gesture and sensation to lead.
The process is physical and immersive. Rather than correcting or forcing resolution, she trusts the internal logic that develops within the painting itself.
Her recent series, Open, Not Broken, explores moments of suspension, endurance, and return. These works hold vulnerability without collapse and openness without fracture, creating spaces where something quiet but enduring can remain.
Pitts lives and works in the United States.
Working primarily in oil and often at a large scale, she begins with color rather than form, allowing gesture and sensation to lead.
The process is physical and immersive. Rather than correcting or forcing resolution, she trusts the internal logic that develops within the painting itself.
Her recent series, Open, Not Broken, explores moments of suspension, endurance, and return. These works hold vulnerability without collapse and openness without fracture, creating spaces where something quiet but enduring can remain.
Pitts lives and works in the United States.
Trixie Pitts
Under the Surface
$7,090
