Linocut printmaker Emily Robertson has recently launched a series of five new prints which are inspired by the nature she has seen during lockdown in Provence, France. Emily completed a Fine Art degree at Falmouth University, and for the past 10 years has been working as an art teacher. In October 2019, she gave up teaching and moved to France with her (French) boyfriend, where she now works as a full-time printmaker.
Emily’s work takes inspiration from the natural world, and her more recent works reflect how birds have become increasingly more important to her. “After someone very close and very important to me died, I became almost a bit obsessed with the idea of birds representing people we love who have passed, or even being some kind of embodiment of those people” explains the printmaker. Before this time, Emily’s work had never included this imagery, but she now finds herself working in order to record what she has seen and experienced. This has become even more prevalent since she has been living in France, as Emily has been able to witness species of birds and animals that she had never seen in the U.K.
Over the last couple of months she has been working on a series of prints based on the animals and birds that she has seen from her new home in Provence. These prints include imagery of an old church that was next to her home, and a piece entitled Allotment Thief, which portrays a rabbit running through the vegetable patch, inspired by the rabbit who ate all the pea plants on her allotment before they had a chance to grow.
With a long list of ideas for new prints, Emily has some exciting ideas sketched out for her new print series. She hopes to experiment with more ambitious pieces in terms of size and content, and dabble in reduction printing and wood engraving.
www.emilyrobertson.bigcartel.com
@emilyrobertson_studio
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