Emma Cownie

Joined Artfinder: May 2013

Artworks for sale: 1003

(273)

United Kingdom

Updates from Emma Cownie's studio

  • An "Emma Cownie" on Your Wall?

    An "Emma Cownie" on Your Wall?

    One thing I love is seeing my work on a collector's wall after they have bought something from me. It gives me a thrill seeing the creative combination of painting and it's new home. Here is one I sold last week, now living in Preston, England. It looks great! If you have an Emma Cownie on your wall I would so love to see it in it's new home!? Thank you.

    25 January 2017
    Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year!

    Another good year for me on Artfinder with 80 paintings sold! Thanks to my collectors, my fellow artists and to the Artfinder team! Happy New Year, here's to 2017!

    31 December 2016
    Malvern Theatres Christmas Exhibition

    Malvern Theatres Christmas Exhibition

    "Three female artists based in South Wales have taken over the exhibition space in Malvern Theatres for the next 7 weeks. They all derive their inspiration from the beautiful surroundings in that part of the Principality as well as further afield. What they have in common, as well as their location is superb technical skill and healthy sales record. People like to share their lives with original images of nature whether they inhabit urban or rural environments. Emma Cownie’s works have a very strong visual impact, derived from bold blocks of colours and an expressive palette that is widely used in modern art and pop art. Looking at Emma’s works you may get a sense of Paul Gauguin’s use of yellow and red, Robert Bevan’s blue green trees with purple, Henri Matisse’s simplification and exaggeration of form and Andre Derain’s bold definition of shape within the landscape. However, her works are not derivative but strongly original."

    20 November 2016
    Free Shipping!

    Free Shipping!

    What!!? Free Shipping Anywhere in the world for a limited period.

    17 November 2016
    Upcoming Art Exhibition

    Upcoming Art Exhibition

    Some of my work has been removed from Artfinder as a fellow artist and I from South Wales will be exhibiting over thirty paintings in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, from the 20th November 2016 to 8th January 2017.

    08 November 2016
    American Art Awards - World's Best Artists of Human Impressionism

    American Art Awards - World's Best Artists of Human Impressionism

    Delighted to recently hear that I have been placed in the American Art Awards for the Category "World's Best Artists of Human Impressionism" with a feature in both The Huffington Post and also in Hollywood Alert. Here I am with my award winning painting "Down the Zinc Lounge" which has been sold to a collector in Kent, England, via Artfinder!

    27 October 2016
    Award Winning Artist

    Award Winning Artist

    "We are delighted to inform you that you have been selected to enter the final round of judging for the prize. In addition, we are pleased to invite you to exhibit with us at our first ever Spring/Summer Exhibition in London next year, where the winner and runners-up will be announced." FAS

    24 October 2016
    Lifting Me Higher

    Lifting Me Higher

    "We're chuffed to bits to be collaborating with Swansea-based painter Emma Cownie Artist on these new posters and flyers! Emma's depictions of pedestrians on Swansea streets are often suggestive of social isolation, something that High Street SHED aims to address. This one is simply called 'Waiting'. "

    04 October 2016
    Others Summing Up My Work

    Others Summing Up My Work

    "Looking at Emma’s painting you may get a sense of Paul Gauguin’s use of yellow and red, Robert Bevan's blue green trees with purple, Henri Matisse’s simplification and exaggeration of form and Andre Derain’s bold definition of shape within the landscape. Emma likes the Fauvist simplified forms, use of lines and bold combination of colours. Emma challenges herself not to keep producing paintings in one style or influence, and is reactive to the scenes and feelings she is faced with. She has created at the other end of the light spectrum too, capturing night-time urban, city scenes. There are many subjects for Emma to apply herself too, as she is located in Swansea with many different types of landscape close by - woodland, mountain and coast. It’s all about the light for Emma, capturing the excitement of it playing on her subjects. A true case of what's left out by the artist with a clever use of colour to take the viewer's mind on a journey into the depths of the image." Gallery OMP.

    11 September 2016
    Passive Smoking

    Passive Smoking

    This, like a number of my recent and forthcoming works, will not be available to buy for the foreseeable future as they will be exhibited first but I am posting details of them to keep collectors and artlovers up to date with my recent work, inspirations and directions. This painting is a new painting is heavily influenced by North American artists in it's colouring and in it's subject matter, namely the frisson that comes from human interaction, in the most apparently mundane settings. I loved this scene, as the man seems ill at ease and not sure whether to leave or remain. He may even feel guilty that he is kinda in ear shot of the couple's conversation and may appear to be eavesdropping. He was there first and then the couple joined him, to eagerly gossip and have a quick cigarette break. They seem so comfortable in each other's company compared to the man who seems very ill at ease, aggrieved at having to endure their their smoking and the drifting grey-white fumes.

    21 July 2016
    The Time In Between

    The Time In Between

    A few words about my inspirations as discussed in relation to this recent painting "The Time In Between". "The title refers to the time before one activity, after another activity has ceased. A limbo period filled with change checking in her purse, as she waits for her bus to arrive. The composition is, as with many of my works, influenced the diagonal compositions as used by Henri Cartier-Bresson. The colouring is influenced by American artists such as Hopper and Eric Bowman. I have deliberately tried to imbue this portrait with pathos, elevating a mundane act into something semi sacred, as the light is Cathedral-like as it shines through the glass roof of Swansea Bus Station onto her chunky cable knit cardigan."

    20 July 2016

    12 July 2016