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EARTHLY MUSE

EMILY IMESON DOESN’T JUST PAINT NATURE, she collaborates with it. A landscape artist, her practice involves taking huge canvases into the bush to paint, embroidering fabric under the shade of a tree and burying her work in the earth to let the soil have its say.

“It started as a way to calm my mind, taking myself out into the trees,” Emily explains. “Before painting, before the creative process, nature was a place that always filled me with a sense of calm, and at the same time, excitement and contentment. So, returning to

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