Island Artist

Emma is a much loved and respected Devon based Contemporary British Artist. Her practice focuses on expressive wild free-spirited land and seascapes, occasionally abstracted or conceptual.

Her originals and limited editions are collected on home and foreign shores, in private collections and public spaces worldwide.

Her family home on Burgh Island, a tiny tidal island in Devon, inspires many of Emma’s paintings, for over 50 years, since before she could write.

Dartmoor, The English Riviera and other islands also serve as a huge inspiration. Paintings are created after Emma walks, sails and explores the wonderful British landscape and waters.

Her work is inspired our relationship with our environment and the elements;

timeless, raw, expressive, free spirited….

Many pieces were painted on Burgh Island or at the Mongolian yurt on Dartmoor she retreats to, as a recluse, to focus on her practice as a contemporary British painter which has spanned 30 years.

SUMMER SOLO SHOW 2025

AVONMILL, LODDISWELL, NEAR KINGSBRIDGE DEVON TQ7 4DD1

June – Oct 11th 2025

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ENGLISH RIVIERA STUDIO

THE ARTIST’S HOUSE
OPEN FOR APPOINTMENTS

(all year round)
PLEASE CALL EMMA IN ADVANCE

07786 810277

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BURGH ISLAND

AUGUST 1 – 6th and 18 – 30th 2025

Emma will be holding a special

Island Artist in Residence exhibition.

Please call 01548 810514 to ask about tides and seatractor times.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Mayne Gallery – Kingsbridge
Artenox – Topsham
The Brownston Gallery – Modbury
Avon Mill – Loddiswell

Seadog Art Gallery – Exmouth

GIFT VOUCHERS

Gift vouchers can be sent or emailed for artwork, commissions, art holidays, workshops and tuition.

ARTIST STATEMENT

‘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.

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 collectors worldwide.

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CONTACT

Emma 07786 810277 or email for studio visit appointments, discuss commissions and art sales.

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