Emily Fowke

I like to spend time in the countryside and then, working from my sense impressions and photos as well as sometimes sketches, I build up oil paintings which I hope convey the appearance as well as the atmosphere of the places which have inspired me.

I have a strong inclination towards variety in colours and textures and also in creating a sense of space.

I’ve enjoyed art from early life and started taking painting seriously as a teenager. I became interested in landscape painting whilst travelling in South America following university, as a way of recording my response to the fabulous new types of scenery I was travelling through. I am mainly a self-taught artist although I have gained from taking a Foundation Arts course at The City Literary Institute, London and I have completed a Certificate in Painting with the Open College of Arts, alongside other courses.

I’m pleased to show work with the Cambridge Drawing Society, and I have also taken part in exhibitions at Primavera Gallery, Cambridge, The Russell Gallery, London, and Mall Galleries, London, amongst others.

Website: www.emilyfowke.co.uk