EMMA WALKER

Emma Walker’s paintings have the rare quality of stirring feelings of vague recollection within the subliminal mind. The abstract compositions, made by complex layering of paint and carving into board, are driven by the artist’s personal history and experiences of the sublime. Yet the viewer who stands before Walker’s works can catch these reveries and feel them as their own.

Carving into the works is about penetrating the surface, getting in further. I like the ambiguity of where a line might be carved or where it might be painted on.

YOUR WORKS ARE CHARACTERISED BY LAYERS WHICH obscure and reveal …

I’ve always worked with layers. It’s kind of a search and response thing; each layer informs the next,