Emmie is a mixed media artist whose inspiration comes from journeys, mystical tales and the eclectic architecture she has encountered. These may be the crumbling beauty of Cuban buildings, the sensory kaleidoscope of India or the time echoing features of Istanbul. Her work often examines the transitory nature of buildings from their planning and construction to their ruins and its structure revealed. Magical realism is an integral part of Emmie’s art, which may start out based on one place but ends as a coalescence of memories from the past, sights of the present and thoughts of the future.
Her work often examines the transitory nature of architecture from its planning and construction to its ruins and structure revealed. It has been said that a building is ‘a volume of human history, holding within its pages the stories and secrets of generations past and present’. The world the artist creates is one in which buildings both within and without are permeated with the disparate details of the lives of their former inhabitants.
