“The exhibited works reflect assorted moods expressed through uninhibited breadth of palette. Faces are seen as familiar yet indistinct. Colours compete for attention whilst maintaining uneasy truce on the canvas. Sharp angles and soft curves collide or avoid. Restlessness seems ever close.”

Emma Donaldson is a self-taught artist who has attended classes at Attenborough Arts in Leicester and Roof Top Arts in Corby. She has been profoundly affected by the impact that her work has had on herself and other people.

Emma defines herself as a Textural Abstract Artist, and her process involves creating light-weight textured paintings and mixed-media works on canvas stretched over a wooden frame. She has exhibited paintings in Cank Street Gallery (Leicester), Ten2 Gallery (Hinkley), Roof Top Gallery (Corby) and The Millennium Gallery (Sheffield). She has work displayed in De Montfort University, and her private collectors include other artists, photographers and academics. She also has a piece in the Museum of Bad Art in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Emma has wanted to be a Dadaist since she saw Barry Humphries with a wellington boot full of custard. With this in mind, she wrote a surreal play in Spanish entitled La Vida Local. This is completely unintelligible to anyone particularly the Spanish. She is also a life model at universities and art groups.

Trails of Colour Dissolve is the first London exhibition of this multi-faceted creative.

Sales proceeds go towards supporting the artist’s growth and funding public programmes in advancing and diversifying engagement in visual storytelling.

Opening times: West Norwood Picturehouse | West Norwood Cinema | Showtimes