‘The work is grounded in the practice of revisiting familiar places, walking over well trodden paths, just ‘being’ in the landscape, then making quick sketchbook scribbles as an open door, a beginning point
Back in the studio the slow process begins of building something more, wherein an experience of a place, with all the sensations, memory or emotion attached to that, are woven into a conversation: A back and forth between artist, place and paint.
The intention is for the work to be not merely topographical or descriptive, but to speak to something more profound within us, to become a meditation in paint, something that one can sit with and inhabit; ‘deep calling unto deep’.
Emily’s love of painting began with childhood holidays by the sea in Cornwall, and early watercolour lessons with her grandmother, herself an amateur artist and landscape sketcher; later coming to be inspired by the Fenland vistas and skies of Cambridgeshire. She studied in Leeds and Madrid before graduating from Aberystwyth University in 2005 with an MA in Fine Art. She has been living and working on the west coast of Wales ever since taking inspiration from its wild and open places; the endlessly reconfiguring relationship between, land, water, sky, under its ever-changing light and weather.