ABOUT

Biography 

Originally from Portsmouth, Emily received a First Class BA in Fine Art at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, an institution infused with a love for landscape painting and particularly the work of Kyffin Williams, who has been a huge influence on her practice.

In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize and was chosen by Maggi Hambling as her winning artist at the plein air painting event ‘Paint Out Norfolk’.

She has partaken in painting residencies in both Mid and North Wales; these intense periods of concentration allowing her to develop her working methods amongst the inspiration of Wales’s dramatic landscape. In 2022/23 she spent a year exploring her practice in depth on the acclaimed Turps Banana Correspondence course. In 2023 she put on a solo show of recent plein air work in the Lightbox, Woking, followed by a joint show in 2024 at Tregony Contemporary in Cornwall, based around travels on the South West Coastal path.

In 2024/25 she won the inaugural public art competition: ‘The Windbreaks’, organised by Portsmouth City Council and had large scale reproductions of her work installed on the seafront of her hometown in Portsmouth. Last year she received a substantial grant from Arts Council England’s ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ scheme to expand the scale and paint application on her paintings.

She is represented by the Tregony Contemporary Gallery in Cornwall and the Contemporary Six Gallery in Manchester.