Emma Hill
Hi, I’m Emma Hill. I’m a half-English, half-Norwegian artist, inspired by my Norwegian heritage, of nature and childhood memories of folklore, telling stories under the midnight sun, of trolls and the spirits of sea and mountains. My art work is spontaneous, intuitive and raw. It attempts to capture the strength and power of the natural world, alongside the colour and patterns that can beautifully emerge from the everyday.
My paintings explore my memories and experiences of nature: of the sea, the sky and the landscape. Rather than following the traditional sense of recording by recognition, my use of colour and texture instead documents my senses. The energy of my mark-making expresses my emotions and remembrance of a time and place, creating a visual dreamscape to convey the true essence.
Over the last two decades, I’ve travelled the globe with my camera, and have come to see art as universal language, joining people together and helping them share new, rich perspectives. With my artistic influences broadened and developed by experiencing so many different cultures and styles around the world, I now try to continue these conversations through my art, both within the finished pieces and the process of discovering the work as I create it.
I’ve previously been represented by New British Artists after being taken on as their ‘wild card’
at the London Art Fair, and have had my art exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair, Southwark Open Studios, 20/21 International Art Fair, the Glasgow Art Fair, the Newcastle Gateshead Art Fair, the Anglian Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester Art Show, and Love in Art, Cork Street, among many others.
For the last ten years, I’ve been employed as an art instructor at Arthouse Unlimited, a charity working with artists living with complex epilepsy and learning difficulties. Artist-led commissions and designs have been produced for clients including the Discovery Channel, Lush, Fatface, Oxfam, Univar Solutions and the Royal Surrey County Hospital. I also work with the charity Delight and Watts Gallery using the joy of arts to create magic in learning for primary school children. Previously I taught art within a prison, encouraging expression, well being and self worth.
In 2019 I was one of Liberty’s Open Call Winners, and my painting ‘Graffiti Summer' was transformed into a repeat patterned print for a collection of their iconic Liberty fabrics — you can read more about the process, the BBC documentary and the upcoming Bloomsbury book here.
I’ve been featured in Create! Magazine, Sew, Homes and Antiques, Artbox, Absolutely London, Canary Wharf City Life, and Public Art Magazine Korea.
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