Emily grew up in a highly academic and loving environment. She would often watch and study with fascination her Physicist Father, scribbling drawings and mathematical sums as she sat on the floor. This led her to thinking about her perception of the world, and what her own language of communication was. It soon became evident Emily's language was Art!

Emily has always questioned and assessed the world about her, and through her art she challenges convention. What is important? What is intelligence? What is beautiful? What is reassuring? What is evocative and uplifting? What is it about an environment which makes us feel safe, positive, or insecure and nervous and why?

'Looking beyond the surface' is a concept Emily addresses frequently. The ground intact and undisturbed represents secure and impenetrable relationships. Broken relationships are symbolised through the cracked up flooring surface, yet glimpses of these new worlds with their optimism and hope exist between these shattered pieces of flooring.

Emily's art encompasses a static quality, which transcends the onlooker to a calm magical world of escapism; where time has stopped and the world about us can be appreciated 'The more you look the more you see'. The rapidity, speed and stress of life can be ignored in this beautiful, surreal and uplifting world Emily creates.

Emily has carried out numerous public commissions in hospitals, schools, police stations, parks and galleries where her work has it's ultimate place and expression in bringing about calm in these often formal institutionalised and somewhat intimidating buildings. Emily lives and practices in Stoke on Trent in The West Midlands. She lectures at Staffordshire University, and actively supports students with internships, runs workshops and is an active and passionate supporter of young people who want to develop careers in the art world.

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