Pandora Covell (b. 2000, London) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. Painting is at the heart of her process, but she combines a multitude of processes thus refusing to limit herself to any single medium. Her visual language surfaces through a fusion of abstract elements, micro-narratives, and biomorphic forms. Covell creates organised chaos that invites viewers to navigate through a multitude of visual stimuli. Covell earned a Master’s in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2023 after receiving a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts in 2022.

I see each individual element of my practice as a seed with the ability to grow, allowing me to move freely, exist, shift, and transform from one form of expression or object to another. My work is rooted in the digestion of ideas and the creation of a personal cosmology, where my visual language evolves organically from one piece to the next. This holistic approach enables me to create managed entropies of visual interconnectivity.

I see the artist as a ‘gatherer’—one who observes, collects, and discovers connections between objects, materials, form, line, and color. I approach my practice as an investigation, using the process to bring thoughts and ideas to light. Painting, for me, is a vessel for combining and constructing new narratives, allowing meaning to emerge through layers of transformation. I collect and assemble materials, letting them evolve into paintings through a process of exploration, where one work naturally leads to the next.

I want the organic and the artificial to interact in ways that both challenge the viewer and reflect my personal experiences within specific locations. This translation between mediums is central to my process—I move fluidly between painting and sculpture, stacking layers of material and meaning until the work becomes multifaceted and open to interpretation. My practice is a continuous cycle of listening, gathering, and making, where sketchbooks become archives of potential, filled with sparks for the imagination.