FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS

By Emma Defries 

Emma Defries is based in London and works at the Lisson Gallery; she is also opening a UK residency in collaboration with the Public Statue and Sculpture Association. We had a lovely natter about her work over a cuppa.

Could you share the earliest influences that shaped your creativity?

I grew up on the West Coast of Scotland on the Isle of Islay in the Hebrides, a remote atoll of islands rich in ancient history, wildlife, and whisky. It was a relatively feral existence, […]

Jeff Joyce brings place into his art practice, pulling from his experience of walking through the landscape as the genesis for his drawings and paintings.

When did you decide to become a painter?

I grew up in North Carolina and knew at an early age that I wanted to be an artist, without a clue what that meant; I just had this desire. I had the good luck to land at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, which had a smashing art faculty in the […]

When you walk into Rowena Gill’s Millbrook atelier, you are most likely to find her in the garden, at her table, intricately cutting fabrics, sewing silk thread, or attaching 50 small buttons to a boned corset. As she greets you, she tilts her head, sizing you up for an idea of fabric and style. 

Gill found her passion as a young child, working with her grandmother, who taught her the early steps of fabric and thread. After growing up in the UK, her family […]