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Island Artist Emma Carter Bromfield
Emma’s collection of expressive originals and limited editions are inspired by Burgh Island, a tiny tidal island in Devon, England.
The island has been Emma’s muse for 50 years, she has painted on the island since she could hold a paintbrush, before she could even write and Emma’s family are the longest standing residents.
The surrounding rugged coastline, Dartmoor, The English Riviera and other small islands also serve as a huge inspiration. Paintings are created in the studio or en plein air after Emma walks, sails and explores the wonderful British landscape and waters.
Her work is inspired by our relationship with the environment and the elements; her pieces timeless, raw, expressive and free spirited.
Many pieces were painted on Burgh Island or at the Mongolian yurt on Dartmoor she retreats to focus on her practice as a contemporary British painter which has spanned 30 years.
CONTACT
Emma 07786 810277 or email for studio visit appointments, discuss commissions and art sales.
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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…’
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The success as a contemporary British painter and the Island Artist has resulted in Emma being invited to feature in a Netflix series ‘Travels with my father’ based on Burgh Island and a new channel 4 series ‘ The best of British by the sea’ aired in May 22.
Emma was also approached in summer 2023 to have two cinematic short films made about her by MGV Productions about Emma as an Island Artist and her story of her love affair with Burgh Island and also The English Riviera.
The Mercure Hotel and Ibis Hotel groups also commissioned Emma to produce a large body of work to hang in their hotels to showcase and support local talent in The Southwest in 2024.
Emma also appears in The Times and Sunday Times Newspaper as an expert in their ‘little black of experts’, Coast Magazine, The Telegraph and Vogue as well as other publications.
Emma continues to show in galleries in the South West and have solo shows and is collected and commissioned by discerning collectors and designers, hoteliers, interior stylists and public spaces worldwide.
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