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Emma J Williams

Princes Risborough
Artist creating paintings and drawings inspired by maps, location and landscapes; working from her studio in Buckinghamshire.
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Working mainly in oils, pen, pencil and collage I produce paintings and drawings that capture the landscapes I have visited or lived in. Inspiration for my work is drawn from places explored, travelled paths, gathered maps, and the quiet language of trees. I am interested in combining real locations with fragments of maps, playing with the idea of merging physical landscape and flat space within the artwork - morphing real places and imagined worlds. Paintings and drawings offer shifting perspectives of the landscape, layering real location with geographical references and the elements of local flora. Tree trunks, roots and leaves are re-imagined in pen, becoming quiet lines of connection that thread through the work. By blending actual places with fragments from maps and nature, the pieces merge the real and the imagined into seamless, intertwined worlds that feel both discovered and dreamt. Paintings and drawings of lone trees in landscapes merge a web like form onto the surface hinting at man-made or underground networks. Earlier paintings involved manipulating paper maps and reducing cartographic elements, offering new and contorted views and creating a sense of place that is both distorted and familiar. Drawings refer to both the man-made and the organic by combining trees, leaves and maps together and references are also made through depictions of pulsating roads and growths of cities that mimic organisms on macroscopic and microscopic levels. Using maps and trees as my main inspiration, I create new and contorted views of the landscape where real places and imagined worlds merge. Mapping these new landscapes back onto canvas and paper, I seek to question our ongoing connection and interaction with nature and our surroundings.

 

 

Northern Scarp

Black Hedge

Through the Beech Leaves

Wooded Crest

Chalk Tracings

Path on the Ridgeway

Views of Whiteleaf Cross

Blue Beech Leaves over Brush Hill

Branch Shadows

Climbing Tree in the Chilterns

Beech leaves in Winter

Tree in the Lake District

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