Emma Price

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Artist Bio

I am an amateur artist from Hartlepool. My primary interest is in the natural world and I use a variety of media to record and reflect upon the organisms that I find. Over the past year I have begun to look closely at the rocks and shells that are stranded on the region’s beaches; many of the rocks contain remnants of ancient life forms, often preserved in astonishing detail, but also in forms resembling modernist abstract art. Capturing these in watercolour, and finding out what I can about their origins, and how they ended up here, is a fascinating and absorbing process which also forces me to confront the brevity of human experience in the context of geological time - timescales which are bewildering for me to imagine.

I have previously had work published in the British Trust for Ornithology’s book "Into the Red” and have had work exhibited at Hartlepool Community Hub. In 2020 I had work selected for the online exhibition of the David Shephed Wildlife Foundation "Wildlife Artist of the Year", and also won the Saunders Waterford award in The Artist and Leisure Painter exhibition of the same year.

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Selected Work

Name: Strandings

Watercolour painting of beach pebbles and fossils that have been washed up on the beach at Hartlepool. They have ancient origins and have arrived here by various geological processes over vast timescales and distances.

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Purchase