Olivia Tew is a visual artist who works from her cottage garden studio in a small Devon village on the outskirts of Exeter. She studied fashion at university and has a background in portraiture with a history of creating visually striking and deeply personal portraits. 

Her art practice is primarily focused on painting, mainly deploying her preferred medium of oil paints to create an impasto surface. Through her distinctive use of colour, expressive mark marking and loose gestural textured surfaces her uplifting work evokes a sense of energy, freedom and nostalgia.