‘Big stormy seas, wild winds and the raw coastline and rugged moorland landscape of the South West inspire me.
My happiest moments are spent on a South Hams beach on a ancient path or mossy woodlands at any time of the year, alone or with company, young or old.
I guess I’m not the only one…
Burgh Island is a very special place, somewhere I can come home to with my family. I have been waiting on Burgh Island since I was three years old since before I could write.
Since a young child I’ve carved out an imagination fed by tides and elements, sea journeys and sea fables told from the seats of ancient mariners in the Pilchard Inn. Anyone that has been there will understand the attraction to this unique island 200 meters from the English mainland, sometimes it feels like a different country.
It is why I am an Island Artist.
I like the hidden empty beaches where I can swim on hot hazy summer English days and big wide winter skies that offer up a myriad of colours. I like tides coming in and watching tides going out.
I dream
I think
I paint.
I paint what I love…
I try to translate that free spirited essence that I think we all crave from time to time.
I like to express emotion in my practice, to let loose with a brush, rag or hands on a canvas, to give relief from all that ties us down to an otherwise ordinary life.
I paint natural wild places and ancient moorlands that I myself return to time and time again, and as I paint from my mind in my studio, I have at least a thousand paintings waiting to be painted. I hope I am lucky enough to grow old enough to fulfil that ambition and have the courage to always challenge myself as an artist…’
Emma continues to show in galleries in the South West and have solo shows and is collected by discerning private collectors and public collections worldwide. Emma has also had two cinematic short films made of her life as an artist. She has also appeared on Netflix and on ITV, labelled as the Sunday Times ‘little black book of experts’ and appeared in numerous magazines and publications celebrating her expressive freestyle paintings, which reminds us all of the free spirited days we want to spend out there connecting to nature, the elements, the ocean…the days where we own our own time and make life worth living.