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Emily

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Emily creates fresh and energetic drawings and paintings of the natural world through direct and immediate mark making. Both sensitive and lively, her drawings capture fleeting moments and visceral experiences of nature through her use of mixed media. Working on a variety of scale and subject matter her work is united by a strong visual vocabulary of mark and colour whilst effectively communicating spontaneity and movement. All of Emily’s work centres on the things that capture her attention within landscape and the life that inhabits it.

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Edinburgh

Materials: Acrylic, Pastel, Watercolour

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Emily creates fresh and energetic drawings and paintings of the natural world through direct and immediate mark making. Both sensitive and lively, her drawings capture fleeting moments and visceral experiences of nature through her use of mixed media. Working on a variety of scale and subject matter her work is united by a strong visual vocabulary of mark and colour whilst effectively communicating spontaneity and movement. All of Emily’s work centres on the things that capture her attention within landscape and the life that inhabits it.

Previous Experience

Emily has exhibited both locally and nationally, including the RSW 145th annual exhibition held at the RSA Edinburgh (2025), Visual Arts Scotland ‘Common Ground’ exhibition held at Kircudbright Galleries (2025) and the VAS Centenary Exhibition (2024) in Dalkeith Palace. She has also exhibited at the Dovecot Studios (2023) and the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) annual exhibition held in the Mall Galleries, London (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). Other local galleries include the Scottish Ornithologists Club, Aberlady (2023, 2020) and the Marchmont Gallery (2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025, 2026). Emily’s work also featured in ‘The Edinburgh Art Book’, released in the Summer 2019. ( BENNETT, E.,ed. The Edinburgh Art Book, UIT/ Green Books, Cambridge, June 2019)

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