Artist Profile - Emily Gregory-Smith

Winter Landscape (mixed media on canvas 40 x 120cm framed) £1200 plus postage
Winter Landscape (mixed media on canvas 40 x 120cm framed) £1200 plus postage

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Biography
Artist Statement

Winter Landscape (mixed media on canvas 40 x 120cm framed) £1200 plus postage Big Cloud (mixed media on borad 46 x 36cm framed) £330.00 plus p&p Winter Shore (oil on linen 97 x 76cm framed) £1200.00 plus p&p Ynys Las at Evening (mixed media on canvas 100 x 50cm framed) £1300 plus postage
Brooding Sky Over Shore (mixed media on canvas 77 x 77cm framed) £1600 plus postage River - Autumn (mixed media 136 x 56cm framed) £1200.00 plus p&p Hedgerow, Ochre Land (mixed media on canvas 30 x 120cm framed) £900 plus postage Dolau-Spring Winds (mixed media on canvas 60 x 60cm framed) £1000 plus postage
Shoreline, March (oil on canvas 50 x 50cm framed) £650 plus postage Calm Day (mixed media on board 46 x 36cm framed) £330.00 plus p&p Wetlands (mixed media on canvas 40 x 120cm framed) £1200 plus postage Between Rain, Coast Walk (oil on canvas 80 x 80cm framed) £1700 plus postage

Biography

Emily Gregory-Smith lives near Aberystwyth, having moved from Cambridgeshire in 2000. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the University of Wales Aberystwyth in 2005, having also studied in Leeds and Madrid, and since then has been exhibiting in the UK and beyond.


Artist Statement

I visit and revisit certain places nearby my home, walking, absorbing, painting. I try to capture not so much an outward appearance, but a feeling of the outside, of 'being there' in the landscape. An experience of a place, a memory, becomes a semi abstract image allowing space for one’s own feelings and associations.

 

Landscape has always been a preoccupation of mine. Recently the Rheidol Valley near my home and the coastal area of West Wales has been very important. Something fundamental about these places attracts me; the light, the watery expanses and big skies; their raw elements assaulting the senses; and the shape and feel of it all ever newly configuring, ever inviting discovery.

I am absorbed by the process of making these elements work within the two dimensions, with all the beautiful surprises and accidents that intervene to enrich the process. Then there are those hard-won moments of 'finding' the image, when things seen and felt in the landscape and in paint somehow concur; rare moments of joy and relief.