Artworks
Emma uses the early Victorian photographic process of cyanotypes to create the base of her artworks. The results are stunning Prussian blue and white images of radiating patterns. To these she adds layers of pen and coloured inks.
The patterns that she adorns her artworks with are drawn from archaeological artefacts and sites from around the world and throughout history. Recently she has delved into images of the electron scanning microscope to draw images that appear alien and other worldly. Emma ‘s first love was textiles and surface pattern design.
Her images reflect that love of colour, pattern, abstraction and texture. She feels that she is mining history and modern science in order to understand a long-lost visual language of spirals, dots and labyrinths and pollen grains to create her own language which communicates and is understood on an instinctive human level.
