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 | | Emily Payton - Biography | Emily's initially intended to study Fine Art at the Ruskin School in Oxford. However, a last minute change of plans meant she studied English instead! Nevertheless literature informs much of her art: she has crafted into a tapestry the lines of a poem by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes' animal poems are the germs for some of her sketches, and a series of prints began life as a visual response to Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.
Emily's other source of inspiration is the natural world. Her artwork often features the patterns found in organic forms, the shapes between things, images which have an unfinished, fragmentary quality to them, collage, and the combination of media. She especially loves the fragility of line drawings in pencil or pen and ink.
Emily's work is marked by an obsession with detail and intricacy. Emily explains this as 'a desire to get as close as possible to the objects I describe, so as to fully inhabit them'.
Emily's work has been exhibited in Fisherton Mill and Salisbury Art Centre. She works to commission and her other work which includes sculpture and 1/12 scale miniatures can be viewed at emilypayton.co.uk
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