Em has spent most of her life living between the sea and the South Downs in Sussex, close to the vibrant city of Brighton, where she spent her teenage years enjoying the ‘alternative’ scene of the 1980s. From there, she studied Art and Dance at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, where she found inspiration from the Expressionists of the early 20th century, who influenced both her art and choreography.

After leaving college she trained as a primary teacher, preferring to teach in the Early Years for over 30 years and only recently has she returned to art.

Now, through drawing and painting, Em seeks to share her responses to nature and the people around her, still using the vibrancy of colour and form from the Expressionists she has always loved but also the purity of thought and process observed in the young children she taught.