Nell Mitchell

Nell’s practice is diaristic, emotionally driven, and uses humour and vivid imagery to explore the rawness of life. She moves fluidly between mediums, from oil paint to biro, allowing ideas to narrate through their most natural form. The work often sits somewhere between writing and drawing, forming intimate, sometimes absurd narratives.Mitchell’s education took her from The Glasgow School of Art to City and Guilds of London Art School, where she studied her BA and MA in Fine Art respectively. However, studying at The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School completely changed her understanding of what drawing can be. As a neurodivergent artist who often found traditional learning environments restrictive, the School’s emphasis on individuality as a strength enabled her to view these differences as creative tools. Having once believed her imagination to be her strongest asset, Nell has now found observation, the act of truly looking, to be equally generative, and her practice now exists in the tension between the real and the imagined. Mitchell is interested in making work that is unguarded, funny and emotionally resonant, testing the boundaries of how drawing can express thoughts, feelings, and everyday moments that shape us.