Eva M.V. Hewitt

Eva M.V. Hewitt (b. 2001) is a Scottish visual artist and painter based in Glasgow. She completed both her Undergraduate and Master of Fine Art degrees at The Glasgow School of Art. Her practice has been shaped through residencies at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and Tighnabruaich Gallery, Scotland, and she has been recognised with awards including the Steven Campbell Hunt Medal for Poetic Creativity (2023) and the Richard Ford Award (2024).

Hewitt’s practice centres on figurative painting and drawing, using the human body as a site through which belief, care, endurance, and authority are examined. Drawing from biblical iconography, art history, and contemporary life, she creates images that collapse sacred narrative into present-day experience, locating devotion within the ordinary and the lived.

Her work is grounded in sacred embodiment – an interest in how the human condition is expressed through posture, gesture, labour, and physical weight rather than spectacle or idealisation. Figures are often rendered in contemporary settings or dress, allowing ancient narratives to persist within modern social spaces such as cinemas, swimming pools, and workplaces. Through this approach, Hewitt considers how belief and moral inheritance continue to shape the human condition throughout time.

Materially, her practice is rooted in oil painting and drawing, with an emphasis on restraint, tonal control, and compositional tension. She is drawn to moments of both quiet intensity and strong drama, where resilience and endurance are made visible through the human body. Rather than illustrating faith, Hewitt’s work examines how meaning persists – embodied, inherited, and sustained through human presence.

Email: evamhewitt@hotmail.com

Instagram: @_footprintsoffaith

Website: evamhewitt.wixsite.com/footprints-of-faith

Eva M.V. Hewitt, Madonnas in Swimming Caps, pencil, pen and watercolour on paper
Eva M.V. Hewitt, St Joseph The Worker with The Dead Christ, Oil on linen
Eva M.V. Hewitt, First Swimming Lesson, Oil and acrylic on wooden panel
Eva M.V. Hewitt, Fit of Rage, Oil, sea glass, fine china, seashells and stone slates on canvas
Eva M.V. Hewitt, Shining Gleam of My Misspent Youth, Oil on canvas
Eva M.V. Hewitt, Saints in Cinema Seats, Oil and acrylic on canvas
Eva M.V. Hewitt, Missing Rib, Oil pastel and charcoal on paper
Eva M.V. Hewitt, The Revered Sebastian, Charcoal, pencil and watercolour on paper
Eva M.V. Hewitt, Three Figures at the Foot of the Trapeze, Oil on canvas
Eva M.V. Hewitt, Helmet of Salvation, Graphite pencil on paper