Emma Jeffryes
Painting
Painting directly from life, Emma has used her talent with colour in this new collection to express the joyfulness and beauty of the Cornish coastline in summer, with its bright umbrellas, dazzling waters, wildflowers and rich green palms. Figures, flowers and boats bring life to these deliberately pretty paintings, in which the summer rhythms of life in St Ives are framed against the simple shapes of sky, sea and sand.
“Looking out from Crab Rock is the most spectacular way to watch wave formations, and the sea colours created by the changing tide and weather. It is awe-inspiring to be right there, painting it first-hand in the middle of a Cornish winter. In midsummer, the beautiful stretch of coast path from Headland Road, which curves around the edge of Hawkes Point to Carbis Bay, is abundant with coastal plants, wildflowers and ferns which form a tropical tunnel that I felt compelled to paint.
The place where sea meets land makes for delightful subject matter and is a continual source of fascination to me, and even in my still-life paintings I can’t resist a hint of the nautical, if it’s only the placement of one simple boat”.
1985 St Georges School, Harpenden 1987 Watford College of Art & Graphic Design 1992 Middlesex University - BA Hons Printed Textiles 1994 The Royal College of Art - MA Printed Textiles2000 Chelsea Art Fair, with Beside The Wave Gallery 2000 Easter Exhibition, Rock Institute, Rock, Cornwall 2000 The Gallery Upstairs, Torquil, Warwickshire 2001 The Sea Show, Thompsons Gallery, London 2001 Fowey River Gallery, Fowey 2001 The Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2002 Rock Institute, Rock, Cornwall 2002 The Cornish show, Thompsons, The City gallery, London 2002 Living in Cornwall, Beside the Wave Gallery Cornwall 2003 Easter Exhibition, Rock Institute, Rock Cornwall 2005 Easter Exhibition, Rock Institute, Rock Cornwall 2005 lquote Summer Blue , Solo Show, The New Craftsman, St Ives 2006 Easter Exhibition, Rock Institute, Rock Cornwall 2006 Summer 2006 , mixed Exhibition, Beside the Wave Gallery 2007 Easter Exhibition, Rock Institute, Rock Cornwall 2008 Spring Collection 2008, Gallery at Tresco, Scilly Isles 2009 Winter to Spring solo show, The new Craftsman, St Ives 2009 Summer Collection 2009, Gallery Tresco, Scilly Isles 2009 Summer 2009, Beside the Wave Gallery, 2010 Solo show New Craftsman Gallery, 2011 Solo Show New Craftsman Gallery, 2012 Solo Show New Craftsman Gallery, 2013 Solo Show New Craftsman Gallery "
