https://emmacopley.com/work daily 1.0 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555284129938-DAFU6XL123Y1CRT30EIT/Green%2C+EMMA+COPLEY+2016.jpg Work - Green Sold Oil on wood panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555284289827-WK1BWC6SB3VYK6E1R23B/backs+boys.JPG Work - Summer in Cromer Charcoal on paper All charcoal drawings are 28 x 42 cms on white paper (although some appear cream coloured here, they are all white) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1571667825330-5FY77XMZR1TJBRBX7U2Z/Green%2C+EMMA+COPLEY+2016.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1635421859698-36N1ZHKO1HC5DKGT1S3O/IMG_0896.jpeg Work - Blossom SOLD Oil on wood panel 2021 20x30 cms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1635451509827-YDBYX0DJJSGD6ODOP0QY/IMG_0875.jpeg Work - Wild swimming in yellow warmed pink Selected for exhibition ‘A Generous Space’, Hasting Contemporary, 26 November 2021 - 17 April 2022 SOLD as part of the artist support pledge and available once exhibition complete gouache on fabriano paper 28 x 38 cms signed and dated on reverse Framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1557149147360-6T28JUKUCRQ5XFKQ5SQN/small+Poolside+sold.jpg Work - Poolside Oil on wood panel 40 x 30 x 2 cms Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555283991254-C67KUJDGX8A3FE7LI7P8/View-from-my-back-garden_SOLD.jpg Work - Rooftops Oil on wood panel Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1684873638710-T52SL7YFGS2P4FIA08AH/image-asset.png Work - Sanctuary Join us for the inaugural exhibition of the new ArtCan East Anglia regional group of artists at the 900 year old Leper Chapel. 12 women artists. Over 90 artworks on display. Winners of the Holly Bush / Women in Art Prize Bursary 2023. Exhibiting Artists: Emma Copley, Deborah Pendell, Liliana Dobbs, Jane Hindmarch, Sarah Milne, Sarah Pooley, Amy Wormald, Wendy Brooke-Smith, Jill Desborough, Juli Fejer, Rebecca Guyver, Karen Turner Exhibition Dates: 25 - 28 May 2023 11am - 4pm Venue: The Leper Chapel, Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5 8JJ Launch Event: 27 May, 5-8pm Join us for drinks to celebrate, with an introduction by ArtCan Founder @kateenters and a chance to meet the exhibiting artists! *Contact me via instagram DM for a price list >>Click>>Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555282701385-PA7R9GXCJXBDA2DTZRF0/mae+in+sea+back+of+head.jpg Work - Sea Water Oil on wood panel 30 x 40 x 2 cms 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 - March Oil on wood panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dc781e4afe96f386943d2/1555309980272-CVZG94P46D0NOA0748OG/MA+Emma+Copley+-+Book+of+Love%2C+%28installation+with+person%29.jpg Work 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. 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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://emmacopley.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2026-03-17