Painter Petria Mitchell understands the extraordinary light and equally remarkable darkness of our wonderful part of the world - New England, with it’s quick changing weather, skies filled with water and light, clouds rolling over hills and meadows. Working from memory and internal visions, Petria creates landscapes filled atmosphere and intense moods. Her expressive brushswork has an abstract quality, which helps convey a sense of timelessness in the work. Smaller works on paper draw us into their space with their subtle modulations of color, while larger works on canvas have bolder brush strokes, more intense colors, and expansive subject matter.

Petria gained much of her art education at Vesper George School of Art, Boston and the National Academy School of Design, New York, NY. She has shown her work and won awards in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout New England.
Her work is included in public and private collections across the United States and abroad. It has been featured in Vermont Life magazine, The New York Times, Art New England and other prestigious publications.

“Petria Mitchell’s landscape paintings are a bold statement of dynamic color applied in a manner where each brush stroke appears to dance off the canvas. Her compositions and textures evoke a fleeting, ephemeral moment for the viewer...blink once and it becomes a memory.”