SPRING 2025

Where have you been Emma?!

I have been MIA and have had a lot of lovely messages from you all asking about classes, the MA, art and life. Thank you to all who reached out! I think I have now replied to everyone, but if you've been missed out please send me another one.

Two particularly exciting things have happened in these last 4 months:

I wrote a children's book! Throughout 12 weeks of the late autumn/winter, I designed, illustrated and constructed 32 pages of adventure - some finished, some rough. It was crazy, amazing, and exciting. You can read a little more about it and see some images of my process along the way, on my blog. I will have the opportunity to take it to the Bologna book fair and the London Grad show in spring 2026 with hopes of having it published, but for now my final year of the MA is hotting up and I have more books to make!

My partner and I have opened a Cafe, Deli, & Wine Bar in Painswick! This is a career change for him, and the coming together of many ideas for me. I hope to use the space above the cafe to teach classes, host exhibitions and artist residencies - lowering my own running costs and expanding my creative world. This means that classes with fewer numbers will be able to go ahead without making a loss. So far it has been a whirlwind of exceptional produce, meetings with stockists but not a lot of sleep...