Did You catch That?

Emma Roberts is a South West artist. She focuses her art practice on figurative works, looking to capture connections and disconnections between people and place. She is intrigued by the process of preciousness, and how it can become embedded into objects.

 

As part of this exploration, Emma creates both large and miniature paintings, resin casts, and smaller works that consider the impact of scale and perception. Some become part of vintage tins, which can be held and opened to reveal a story. These might connect with the viewer, perhaps imbuing an intangible sense of preciousness.

 

Her oil paintings produced on linen canvases, capture connections and disconnections between people and place.  Through the creation of paintings and three-dimensional works, she hopes to reflect on the importance of memory and how it makes our living history; perhaps enabling herself to live with more awareness so as not to miss fewer tender moments. Emma is particularly intrigued by the process of preciousness, and how it can become embedded into objects, through which an owner can recall a moment in time, a feeling, a person, or a place.

 

‘I wonder if our innate wish to recall the elements that shape us and make our histories, also drives us to seek tangible reminders of life's punctuation marks.’

 

In 2014, she suffered a rare, life-threatening stroke, which threatened her vision and has left obvious and hidden scars. This exposure to life's fragility drives her wish to linger when tender moments arise and notice when connections and disconnections occur.

‘In a moment, a brief, indefinite interval of time, everything can change. There will always be a last kiss, so linger a fraction longer when tender moments arise.’

 

Although Emma is a figurative artist, there is one seascape that she paints, Meadfoot Beach. She grew up on this beach, her mother has had a beach hut there for forty years and every major life event either happens around the beach or is shared with it. This connection drives Emma to include it her work, often as a ground for other figurative paintings, but occasionally on its own.

 

 

Mixed Media | Oil on Linen Mixed Media Vintage Tin

8.5x10x2.5cm