Emma Pickering
Emma
Louise Pickering was born in Oxford on 1967. She studied Art and design
there as well as exhibiting in major city galleries and art events.
The vast contrast of the Purbecks landscapes, from the chalk stacks of Old Harry rocks to the beautiful golden beaches at Studland, became an inspirational force behind her abstract work. Her work is determined by whatever complex of emotions and thoughts, that stimulate her to paint in a particular way within any given moment. Layers create depth and texture showing an essential orderliness throughout her work.
Each painting is worked up, then scraped down - this way of working can take months - until a connection is made between the soul and the work - until it feels right. What the onlooker gets from the work, depends upon their sensitivity towards its shapes,colour and composition. Her paintings embraces simple composition through an arrangement of lines - this gives her work and "identification tag" of its own - it speaks its own language. Her work is mainly influenced by landscape and coast - it takes the sharp contrasts of both and juxtapositions them together - eclectic symbolic markings and shapes representing life - becoming one.
"The perfection of the picture lies in the harmonious union of details
as arranged in space, just as the beauty of music may be in the harmony
of the chords arranged in time." John Canady on Abstraction. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art.