Eve Hindle-Buffey

Eve Hindle-Buffey (b.1994) is a British artist and educator living and working in Yorkshire. Since graduating her MFA from The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Hindle-Buffey has exhibited in significant online shows of the Scottish Portrait Awards and the 2021 ECA Graduate Show in the UK. Her works specialise in drawing, specifically portraiture. 

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Hindle-Buffey’s Contemporary Art practice explores existential themes through portraiture. With references of humour tying the subject to British Culture today, considering how humour functions within society. Her work contributes toward the record of human experience and is a reminder of what it is to be human. Hindle-Buffey's works rely on living-in-the-moment snapshots of social happenings and reflections in real-time. Her pencil-portraits process finds great detail of tone, texture and light to capture the transition from life to art: to reflect on the fleeting moment and capture the ephemeral image to make the person's portrait become alive. Suspending all of society's rules and restrictions to become true freedom of expression.

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Genuine, playful and exciting. Eve Hindle-Buffey's portraits are full of emanating bursts of personalities and hold their spaces in the large scale paper with realities truth that goes beyond mere representation when you look closely at the textural mark-makings. Her portraits capture honesty, character, and atmosphere of the moment, they have a completeness about them that allows you to understand them in their physicality in the space. Hindle-Buffey's portraits hold the scene in the moment. Each person's portrait is paid great detail to ground them within the space, contrasted to the minimalistic line of the background. This focus communicates her understanding of how to celebrate the ephemeral fleeting humourous moments of life.