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Glimpses of the everyday and human connection are ongoing threads within my work. My paintings and books – on wood panels, perspex, and paper – explore personal experiences of isolation, love and connection. Each painting is inspired by my everyday life: a dark sink full of dishes with the sun coming in the window, or my daughter wrapped up in blankets on her bed. I work from personal images and also use found photos and historical references. I print and fold the printed images I work from. Using the printed image as a starting point, I create the composition and eliminate areas from the image in order to intensify the emotion. Sometimes I tear up paintings and rearrange them to create new compositions, or turn them into books – this has become an important part of my process. I paint in layers with thick oils on wood and smooth, flat gouache on paper. My paintings begin with muted tones, mixing greys tinted with primary colour, ending with an infusion of bright colour that relates closely to these. I spend a lot of time looking at my palette and mixing groups of colour. Brushstrokes vary between smooth, slow, thoughtful marks and fast, thick layers of paint. When using oils, I paint quickly with brushes and a palette knife – spreading globs of paint on a smooth hard surface, wet into wet, carving out forms and building up texture. The recognisable parts of the image and the texture of the thick paint draws you in, while unfinished areas allow your eye to complete the image and the smell of oil holds your attention. My largest works are 14 metres long and the smallest are 15 x 22 centimetres. I am drawn to working on accordion books, giant sheets of watercolour paper, wood panels, and with window motifs. I am influenced by figurative and abstract approaches to painting and depicting the figure and my daily life. I am interested in how techniques like distortion, fragmentation and layering bridge these approaches, and how they can be used to symbolise different states of being like joy and trauma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598623984123-FKHW8EEZGIMR0Z6289PT/02_Emma+Copley+24+Portraits+October+2019.JPG New Page - Make it stand out Commission 24 Portraits: Recovering and Reimagining Women’s Labour, University of Cambridge, permanent collection, 2020 All artwork and images are copyright © Emma Copley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/a1a9fe98-2105-40ee-9156-3bd9c5af9b46/IMG_7590+2.jpg New Page EMMA COPLEY (b.1979 Dublin) I was born in Ireland, grew up in the United States, and live and work in the UK. Glimpses of the everyday and human connection are ongoing threads within my work. My paintings and books – on wood panels, perspex, and paper – explore personal experiences of isolation, love and connection. Each painting is inspired by my everyday life: a dark sink full of dishes with the sun coming in the window, or my daughter wrapped up in blankets on her bed. I work from personal images and also use found photos and historical references. I print and fold the printed images I work from. Using the printed image as a starting point, I create the composition and eliminate areas from the image in order to intensify the emotion. Sometimes I tear up paintings and rearrange them to create new compositions, or turn them into books – this has become an important part of my process. I paint in layers with thick oils on wood and smooth, flat gouache on paper. My paintings begin with muted tones, mixing greys tinted with primary colour, ending with an infusion of bright colour that relates closely to these. I spend a lot of time looking at my palette and mixing groups of colour. Brushstrokes vary between smooth, slow, thoughtful marks and fast, thick layers of paint. When using oils, I paint quickly with brushes and a palette knife – spreading globs of paint on a smooth hard surface, wet into wet, carving out forms and building up texture. The recognisable parts of the image and the texture of the thick paint draws you in, while unfinished areas allow your eye to complete the image and the smell of oil holds your attention. My largest works are 14 metres long and the smallest are 15 x 22 centimetres. I am drawn to working on accordion books, giant sheets of watercolour paper, wood panels, and with window motifs. I am influenced by figurative and abstract approaches to painting and depicting the figure and my daily life. I am interested in how techniques like distortion, fragmentation and layering bridge these approaches, and how they can be used to symbolise different states of being like joy and trauma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598623984123-FKHW8EEZGIMR0Z6289PT/02_Emma+Copley+24+Portraits+October+2019.JPG New Page - Make it stand out Commission 24 Portraits: Recovering and Reimagining Women’s Labour, University of Cambridge, permanent collection, 2020 All artwork and images are copyright © Emma Copley. https://emmacopley.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://emmacopley.com/owen-sherwood daily 0.75 2026-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/3bd1ab8d-be9a-4526-811d-1e826ea9da5b/logo.png Owen Sherwood https://emmacopley.com/work daily 1.0 2026-06-05 https://emmacopley.com/work/bookoflove-zgbfp monthly 0.5 2026-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555309980272-CVZG94P46D0NOA0748OG/MA+Emma+Copley+-+Book+of+Love%2C+%28installation+with+person%29.jpg Work - The Book of Love Book of Love, 2016-2017, 14 metre, gouache on paper, paintings and monoprints Pictures of you, 2017, oil paintings on wood panel, (x 5) Installation: Flare, MA Exhibition Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of Art, 2017 “This installation limited the physical distance between my painting ‘Window’ which was hung on the wall, and the viewer. The ‘Book of Love’ was installed on the floor directly below it, causing the viewer to have to look up and down, and side to side to view each piece. The effect being that the viewer could not look at just one image at a time. I have altered how I perceive my own work and found it useful to look at it in terms of everyday technological practices used to make and disseminate the work, interfaces, sources from which I gain the imagery and then make work from. I found making the ‘Book of Love’ to be pivotal in instigating format and installation changes, making me reconsider the way I want my paintings to be seen. Using the book as a container to house private and personal paintings and allowing them to be viewed through unfolding, forced me to expose the fragility of my personal work and to trust the viewer to care for the life, my life, that was depicted on its pages. This created a new relationship between the viewer and myself.” Emma Copley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555308176416-J86Y1V1TVZN9ZB5W2HI3/Gouache+BOOK+OF+LOVE+mae+dixie.JPG Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598623907360-G6UIQW075DKS7KBV6VGO/IMG_7513.jpg Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555308201436-5FRDJIL1LCGGBVG8DCO4/Gouache+Book+of+Love%2C+%28installation+left+floor%29..JPG Work - The Book of Love - Book of Love (Copy) Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598623812396-5HZM95DNCP1MGQH5G7HN/IMG_7511.jpg Work - The Book of Love - Book of Love (Copy) Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598623841966-S1WBD5LY5QN3OKA1DCI9/IMG_7512.jpg Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555308224588-YU9S3G2AY9N4P8G7UUPO/Gouache+Book+of+Love%2C+%28installation+middle%29.JPG Work - The Book of Love - Book of Love (Copy) Book of Love Select pages from the book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598624072488-8XFA6MEQUHPL6QMQARV6/IMG_7514.jpg Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555308195535-04EGAKCT100JOM0CMSHB/Gouache+BOOK+OF+LOVE+pkindersly.JPG Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598624088626-4MZ64KX17396CM2CT126/IMG_7516.jpg Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555308100602-5RNFHW6WF4K9IOSVECHM/Gouache+BOOK+OF+LOVE+aid+abet.JPG Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598624065306-BPA423H5O16H2VYQT1GB/IMG_7515.jpg Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555308173044-V1BC3MWMMD3PYE8Q5HTG/Gouache+BOOK+OF+LOVE+Joe+and+Daddy+.jpg Work - The Book of Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598623944390-DHQ47DQ1VIZPWKHA7WI0/IMG_7514.jpg Work - The Book of Love https://emmacopley.com/work/home-ytmhy monthly 0.5 2026-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1557148960039-OHW9LE7Z0WPKSPYXYCPQ/small+NIAMH%2C+25.5X22CMS%2C+OIL+ON+WOOD+PANEL%2C+EMMA+COPLEY%2C+2016.jpg Work - Paintings - March (Copy) March Oil on wood panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555280302404-IRU49GFAFYMGVMXQM01F/Niamh+detail+March%2C+oil+on+wood+panel%2C+Emma+Copley%2C+2016.jpg Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555280289796-XLALUUHHPKYS9H3QQQUJ/KITCHENSINK%2C+80x100CMS+FRAMED%2C+OIL+ON+WOOD+PANEL%2C+EMMA+COPLEY%2C+2016.jpg Work - Paintings - Kitchen Sink (Copy) Kitchen Sink Oil on wood panel, framed 80 x 100 x 2.5 cms “It is the biggest window in the house and the one that lets in the most light. Sun coming in, green lit bushes glowing outside contrast with the dark purple - grey of the walls and the metallic blue of the sink, even the old milky baby bottle looks alright. At the beginning, when being at home all the time was new to me, the kitchen sink was a place for dreaming, in spite of its boringness, the light bouncing off the cupboard turns the renters magnolia off-white into a flat violet with hints of red.” Emma Copley, from notes on paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1557148913877-LXQCLQ96H8J43HWH6Y45/small+SUGAR+BEETS%2C+30x40cms%2C+OIL+ON+WOOD+PANEL.jpg Work - Paintings - Sugar Beets (Copy) Sugar Beets Oil on wood panel 40 x 30 x 2 cms Selected for Lynn Painters Stainers Exhibition Mall Galleries London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555280030920-745ZK384K656AS1YKAFW/Emerging+from+the+silence+sold.jpg Work - Paintings - Emerging (Copy) Emerging Oil on wood panel 46 x 30 x 2 cms Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555280055885-V3TFJC39J2X8AVUB5D8C/Emerging+from+the+silence_detail.jpg Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598623984123-FKHW8EEZGIMR0Z6289PT/02_Emma+Copley+24+Portraits+October+2019.JPG Work - Paintings 24 Portraits: Recovering and Reimagining Women’s Labour 2019-2020 Oil on perspex 154 x 131 cms (individual panels 30 x 21 cms) Supported by The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge programme hosted by Cambridge University Libraries, supported by Cambridge Assessment, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation, and Friends of Cambridge University Library. Permanent Collection University of Cambridge, Pathology Department. “This site-specific installation is made up of painted portraits of women who currently work in all areas of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge including laboratory managers, academics, cleaners, lecturers, administrators and technicians. My aim is to celebrate and address the representation of women working in all types of jobs in this department. After researching how many women work in the Department of Pathology, and what that work entails; I photographed a small selection of them and from these photographs created a series of 24 painted portraits. The portraits are painted in black paint on transparent Perspex and installed in a large window. The light coming in the window allows the image to be seen, similar to images created in stained glass. By creating these paintings that represent women carrying out all forms of labour in the department, I intended to elevate these sometimes undervalued images of women and their job roles. By placing the portrait installation in between the existing commemorative bronze relief portraits of men, I wanted to create visual connections between both sets of images, enabling the viewer to confront the visual representation of women in the department. The title of this installation piece relates directly to Gerhard Richter’s 48 Portraits; a series of painted portraits of historic male figures made for the 1972 Venice Biennale. Richter was interested in the speechless language of pictures, where personalities become anonymous. This is something I am interested in also and wanted to make a point of with the title of the piece. By painting the portraits of these women in black and white and not including visual information that would point to their specific job role, I hope to have given them this anonymity and even the ability to be reimagined.” Emma Copley Free and open to all. Visitors must check in at the ground floor for a visitors pass and be escorted to view the art work. Large groups please call in advance. Contact details are available on the Department of Pathology website. https://women-at-pathology.shorthandstories.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1598624061066-X56SRC5HQK1JR6Z1SANK/01_Emma+Copley+24+Portraits+October+2019.JPG Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1574004587233-2TOEI4Z3S8PI6GE8SOHE/09_Emma+Copley+24+Portraits+October+2019.JPG Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1594751911665-HIOOGHVDQCZS7IHWZ4X5/Dancing+at+the+Uffizi%2C+%C2%A9+Emma+Copley+2020.JPG Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555283914445-FBB2UZTBDBFWSWVD208F/FULBOURN+WINDMILL%2C+21X29CMS+FRAMED%2C+OIL+ON+WOOD+PANEL%2C+EMMA+COPLEY%2C+2016.jpg Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555281960460-D8JLCG1UK3EM424XJKRB/Best+friend%2C+EMMA+COPLEY%2C+2016.jpg Work - Paintings Best Friend 2018 Oil on wood panel, framed 53 x 43 x 2.5 cms “Soon it will be summer. Light grey skies, cold blue waves with pink foam and the smell of salty air. My loves and I spend these short times together with sea water stinging eyes, feeling our way around. Completely taken over by the splash.” Emma Copley, from notes on paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555282925458-N5VFBNEKA3YKQSU6TGE6/My+little+swimmer%2C+EMMA+COPLEY%2C+2016.jpg Work - Paintings My little swimmer 2018 Oil on wood panel, framed 53 x 43 x 2.5 cms Winner of The Other Art Fair x Habitat Award Habitat AW18 Collection 2018 “I have always admired the impressionist’s ability to capture a fleeting moment. I worked very quickly laying oil paint onto a wood panel with a palette knife. Using a family photo as a starting point, and mixing colour that reflects how I imagine my daughter might feel when she enters the water. I wanted her figure to just begin to emerge and for the work to express not only an emotion with the combination of gesture and colour, but also a sense of speed.” Emma Copley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1570396669540-U6VQY6IM2INV1L513MC9/image-asset.jpeg Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1557147029420-YCQDH54XU734BAERCAZ4/small+BATHER+1+SOLD%2C+23X15CMS%2C+OIL+ON+WOOD+PANEL%2C+EMMA+COPLEY%2C+2016.jpg Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1557149090759-91O37G7YBU785GYDFJHN/small+Serpent+sold.jpg Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1557149147360-6T28JUKUCRQ5XFKQ5SQN/small+Poolside+sold.jpg Work - Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555282701385-PA7R9GXCJXBDA2DTZRF0/mae+in+sea+back+of+head.jpg Work - Paintings