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Emma Cownie

Joined Artfinder: May 2013

Artworks for sale: 1028

(272)

United Kingdom

Updates from Emma Cownie's studio

  • 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
    Rise Art Review

    Rise Art Review

    It is a good idea to get expert opinions on your artwork instead of simply relying on the vagaries of the market or features to motivate you. So I took my own advice! "Emma's paintings are lively and capture the fleeting moments of day and night in the Swansea streets. A very strong visual impact is derived from bold blocks of colours and an expressive palette that is widely used in modern art and pop art. The cinematic compositions and dramatic use of light and dark in her artworks, particularly in those night scenes where I observe some tranquility and alienation in a busy city, almost draw a subtle connection to the pieces of Edward Hopper. Her depiction of pedestrians and streets of Swansea in rain creates an enigmatic atmosphere which tempts the viewers for more and her 'refractionist' style is eye-catching. I particularly like the figurative works which I think capture the everyday nuances of normal people going about their daily life" Rise Art - Insiders Review

    02 June 2016
    We Have Been Framed!

    We Have Been Framed!

    15 paintings just back from the framers and ready to hang on your walls! See my forthcoming "Ready to Hang" collection on my storefront page.

    02 May 2016
    Time Out

    Time Out

    Nature spreads her bluebelled palette.

    26 April 2016
    My Latest Art Exhibition

    My Latest Art Exhibition

    Here I am standing in front of some of the paintings I am exhibiting in the GalleryOMP, Old Mayor's Parlour, Hereford until the 24th April 2016. "There are so many subjects for Emma to apply herself too, as she is located in Swansea with so many different types of landscape close by - woodland, mountain and coast. Winter is Emma’s favourite time when the rich light catches the mossy barks of trees and illuminates the background behind the leafless trees with pinky purples. It’s a time that this artist finds more colourful than other times of the year despite the natural desolation that the colder weather brings. The light is often more brilliant than the light of summer, somehow clearer. You can look through and beyond the leafless trees giving a greater depth of perception and a richer array of overlapping colours to be captured on the canvas."

    30 March 2016
    How Other's See My Work

    How Other's See My Work

    "Looking at Emma’s painting you may get a sense of Paul Gaugain’s use of yellow and red, Robert Bevan's bluey 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 when in front of a potential subject. She has created at the other end of the light spectrum too, capturing night-time urban, city scenes. There are so many subjects for Emma to apply herself too, as she is located in Swansea with so many different types of landscape close by - woodland, mountain and coast."

    29 March 2016
    Seeds of Change

    Seeds of Change

    "Painters may train at colleges and academies by learning about and copying the old masters – for indeed it used to be considered a man's world behind the canvas. Studying art formally a student will go through the disciplines of drawing, perspective, colour, tone, hue and the creative movements over time. A less structured approach may be taken by the self-taught who also study the masters in a responsive less formulaic way.There are still the sub-conscious influences of what’s gone before in the creativity flowing out of the brush. Hereford-born, Wales-based artist Emma Cownie, starts her work by sketching out the terrain, piecing together different parts of the whole picture. It’s an intuitive process, working on different sections of the canvas, trusting to experience that the whole will pull together. Emma chooses to tackle what she sees as the most interesting and brightest part of the painting first rolling against the traditionalist who would work from dark to light. "

    29 March 2016