Studio 4: 589 Middle Road
Encaustic paintings
www.emmaashby.com
emma@emmaashby.com
603.502.5433
Emma grew up on the East Coast of England, UK, where her deep affection for coastal landscapes was cultivated. It’s a love affair that has continued to grow in her twenty years of living on the East Coast of New England and is reflected in the atmosphere and emotion of her paintings.
Emma studied textiles at the Royal College of Art in London, where she received an MA. Then, having worked for several years in the British fashion industry, she moved to the United States where she was introduced to the ancient medium of encaustic. It quickly became her passion. Today Emma is a full-time artist and encaustic educator. Early work drew on her textile background, incorporating fabric and pattern to create abstract images of flowers and ponds. In recent years her work has become more representational, and she is one of the few artists working with encaustic who is known for landscape painting. What makes her work especially unique is her use of clay. As the artist explains “I wanted to incorporate clay into the layers of wax so that some of the subject matter would actually become an organic part of what I was creating”.
Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and commissioned for both private and public spaces. She has work in the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe and is a member of the International Encaustic Artists.
Emma lives In Portsmouth, NH. She is married with four grown children and five grandchildren. This will be her eighth year participating in the Portsmouth Holiday Arts Tour.