Statement

Emily Roberts is an artist and art teacher  specialising in working from life and imagination. After training at Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, where she took on various teaching roles, she moved to Margate, and then Cornwall. Emily has taught in studios in Antwerp, Basel, Florence, Firle, London and across Cornwall. Her work is held in private collections across Europe and North America. In her newer, more personal work, she hopes to bring traditional methods to a contemporary experience, bridging the void between the visual tradition and the modern psyche. 

In September 2022 Emily also collaborated with Kab Brighton to create Kaolin, a pop-up gallery and kitchen in Golant, Cornwall. Her curatorial work included a nine artist group show and a large solo exhibition.

Her current project, No Man's Land, is a large scale multimedia project examining refuge.

This project draws from myth and experience to offer artifacts and images from an imagined world on the banks of the River Styx. Spanning themes of belonging, transition, water crossings and our relationship to land, No Man's Land seeks to examine an imagined environment, drawn together from Calais, Cornwall, Margate and myth.

Exhibitions and selected commissions

2023 Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy

2023 Guildford House, Guildford

2022 commissioned illustration work for Es Devlin Studio

2022 appearance in Sky Portrait Artist of the Year

2022 it aint Coca Cola, it's rice, Kaolin, Golant

2022 Red Store Lerryn

2021-2022 Turner Contemporary Open, Margate

2019 Gallery 40, Brighton

2018 Human/Nature Old Brompton Gallery, London

2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2016 Pastel Society Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2016 Portraits, Charles H. Cecil Studios, Florence

Education

October 2014- July 2017: Charles H. Cecil Studios: Three years training in drawing and painting, with extensive teaching experience
October 2009- June 2013: University of Bristol: BA History of Art, 2:1