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A new take on botanical painting

Emma Chambers

 

recently exhibited at the Mall Galleries with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and she has just been selected for associate membership to the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and will be exhibiting at Bankside Gallery, London. Her work can currently be seen at The Bakery, London, where she is a member of an artist-led gallery and at the Wey Gallery in Godalming, Surrey where she also exhibits her work.

Drawing our attention to quiet observation, Emma Chambers gives us a snapshot of plants from the pattern of nature. With a trained eye she hones in on shapes and objects, rather than the whole. Plants are selected from their complex landscape and presented in a painting, true to their nature but without all the noise of other distracting elements. Emma chooses to focus on those everyday plants, those that perhaps normally go

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