Born in 1987, Emily studied Fine Art at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where, (it seems strange to her now), she painted not a single landscape but was focused on portrait painting. Over the years she was included in several portrait exhibitions including the ‘Conversations’ prize at the Royal Society of Portrait painters at the Mall Galleries, London.

However, over the years the urge to paint outdoors (‘En Plein Air’) persisted and could not be ignored, and during a five-year period of living in the Mani Peninsula of Greece, an isolated, mountainous region, she began to explore the possibilities of Plein Air painting properly.

Emily currently lives in Hampshire, where she has a studio, but feels lucky as a Plein Air painter to have the whole of nature as her true ‘studio’, and is at her happiest when outside, conveying something of the splendour of the natural world onto canvas.