Born in 1978, Emily obtained a First Class Honours degree at Aberystwyth in Fine Art, graduating from an MA with distinction. Since leaving college Emily has exhibited widely and established a strong reputation, and her work is now in many private collections in the UK, and worldwide.

Emily's work has been selected twice for The Discerning Eye Exhibition in London. In 2009 The Financial Times also tipped her as a young artist to follow. She has shown with the gallery since 2006.

I have always loved the wilder fringes of West Britain: Cornwall has been a very formative place for me, but in the last 10 years my home in West Wales has become more and more deeply rooted in my consciousness.

I find the river floodplains, estuaries and seascapes especially appealing; coming as I do from Cambridgeshire, where the vast flatlands of the fens were my childhood scenery, I think I am still endlessly attracted to wide open skies and watery places. I spend hours walking and drawing the landscape, and then retreat to the studio to paint.

Turner has been an important influence for those great atmospheric landscapes that one can get lost in. I also greatly admire the lyrical qualities of Ivon Hitchens and Winifred Nicholson's work, and artist's such as Peter Prenderghast, John Virtue and Frank Auerbach for such hard-won, expressive paintings.

E G-S 2011