Emma’s work is a fusion of imagination, memories, dreams, history and legends.

Each painting tells a story you are invited to enter. Grounded in a New Zealand setting, Emma’s figurative work explores our relationship within and to the land.

Emma’s use of paint is experimental and purposely accidental. Layers of colours, textures, and patterns. Frequently she paints over a painting creating a murky history underneath that peeks through. Building up a narrative of ideas and concepts that give glimpses of a mythical and magical world that lives around and within all of us. Using strongly intentional strokes of the brush that leave a rough texture, pushing and pulling the paint, scratching, and scraping it back.