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 Welsh 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 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.

She is an elected member of the Chelsea Art Society, and has spent a year on the ‘Turps Banana’ Art School Correspondence Course. She is also represented by the Tregony Contemporary Gallery in Cornwall.