Emily’s love of landscape started with childhood seaside holidays to Cornwall and Devon, huge Fenland skies near her home and a grandmother who painted watercolours. She studied in Leeds and Madrid before graduating from Aberystwyth University in 2005 with an MA (distinction) 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.

‘The work is grounded in the lived experience of daily walks on familiar paths, often using sketchbook and quick fire preliminary work as a way in to the work. Then back to the studio to begin the difficult process of putting something into paint, where the visceral feelings of being in a place- the emotional and spiritual resonance therein- can be felt and communicated.’