ELISABETH TETLOW

Elisabeth Tetlow is a British painter whose work moves between nature, dream, and psyche. She describes her process as a kind of “spontaneous utterance”—beginning without sketches, letting the first marks unfold into landscapes that feel at once archetypal and deeply personal.

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Trees, mountains, rivers, and paths reappear across her canvases, not always as literal depictions but as inner symbols—sanctuaries, thresholds, “Inbetween Places” where imagination and the natural world converge.

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Working primarily in oil with hand-ground pigments, Tetlow builds luminous, layered surfaces that shimmer with colour, presence, and slow arrival—each painting emerging like a living organism until it finally “lands” in the world.

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Raised in a family of artists and based in rural Essex, she draws daily inspiration from wildflowers, skies, and the changing seasons. Her influences range from Klee, Kandinsky, O'Keeffe, and Chagall to Chinese ink traditions, folk art, Jungian psychology, and the study of dreams.

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She holds a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University and an MA in Traditional Art from the Kings Foundation School of Traditional Arts.

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For Tetlow, painting is less about depiction than revelation:
“I hope my work opens a doorway—a reminder that there is always more behind this world.”