Emily is a contemporary still life artist currently living and working in the bayside suburb of Williamstown, Naarm (Melbourne).

Her work expresses a keen interest in the interwoven nature of objects and identity. Her paintings are not so much about the items depicted on the canvas as they are about the people they belong to. In her still life paintings, she aims to capture the sentimental beauty in the ephemera of ordinary life, and to explore the way material possessions hold meaning and evoke memories.

Her artwork is inspired by nature, her rural Queensland upbringing, and her years spent living and working in France over a decade ago. When she returned from living abroad, she began to see her surroundings and the Australian way of life through a new lens.

Emily is particularly attracted to the wild, unpretentious charm of native flowers and seemingly mundane objects that hold symbolic value or mark a moment in time, like her grandmother’s rosary beads or a hand-me-down tea set. While her subject matter varies from traditional vase arrangements featuring fruit or books, through to old houses and retro kitsch, all of her works aim to preserve delicate moments in time that celebrate the natural world and life’s simple pleasures.

Emily hopes her artwork brightens spaces and connects with viewers in a way that conjures a sense of comfort, nostalgia and delight.