East London Works in Plaster “Emma Wood’s work carries the texture and pace of the places she seeks to describe. Her painterly approach displays the vitality and richness of a place at ground level. Remnants from these neighbourhoods are incorporated like memories – a heap of old gauze, a head gasket from an old car lot. Within the colour and mark-making, a cyclist goes by, people appear. These pieces are like snapshots of a well-loved place. Like cave paintings, they have a direct human touch. They capture the experience of a person here at the moment. In all her work, Emma seeks to describe the movement associated with people in a particular setting, to refine that movement to some degree an to record it in an ‘impulsive expressive manner’. These images are a celebration of her community and environment. They acknowledge the disorder and abandonment she sees around her, yet her warmth and affection for the place win out.” Nathalie Palin (Curator) Click on image to see more detail

East London

Works in Plaster

“Emma Wood’s work carries the texture and pace of the places she seeks to describe. Her painterly approach displays the vitality and richness of a place at ground level.

Remnants from these neighbourhoods are incorporated like memories – a heap of old gauze, a head gasket from an old car lot. Within the colour and mark-making, a cyclist goes by, people appear. These pieces are like snapshots of a well-loved place. Like cave paintings, they have a direct human touch. They capture the experience of a person here at the moment.

In all her work, Emma seeks to describe the movement associated with people in a particular setting, to refine that movement to some degree an to record it in an ‘impulsive expressive manner’. These images are a celebration of her community and environment. They acknowledge the disorder and abandonment she sees around her, yet her warmth and affection for the place win out.”

Nathalie Palin (Curator)

Click on image to see more detail