about artist
Valerie Savchits is a visual artist and illustrator based in Brighton, UK, originally from Riga, Latvia, creating stylised dark fantasy and quirky narrative art. Since completing her Master's degree at the University of Brighton in 2022, her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with notable group shows at Saatchi Gallery with Delphian Gallery in London, Zuzeum Art Centre in Riga and La Causa Galeria (MxM) in Madrid.
Savchits developed a signature style, a visual voice shaped by metaphors, dark whimsy and a touch of irony. Her work filters personal and cultural experience through a symbolic visual language. Exploring memory, myth and place, she reflects on how they shape perception, identity and belonging. The artist’s perspective is rooted in cultural displacement and personal refuge, using dark folk aesthetics, symbolic natural elements and fragmented figures to express a worldview that is both intimate and culturally resonant. The forms, lines and colour palette in her work draw directly from nature, gothic aesthetics, manga, anime and video games. Hauntology—the presence of the past in the present—informs her interpretation of space, self and humanity’s tendency to repeat mistakes. Savchits’ work dwells in the tension between beauty and unease, guided by ambiguity and emotional depth.