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Footnotes: An Artist's Journey Around the Gower Coast Kindle Edition
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The Gower peninsula, in South West Wales, was Britain’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and it's beauty is revealed via photos and Emma's oil paintings which help document her walk around it's beautiful coast.
Emma is also a Doctor of History and puts these advanced skills to good use in detailing episodes from Gower's rich and intriguing past.
She also learns much about herself as she does Gower, of how knowing one's limitations can be an asset on life's journey too.
Join Emma on this interesting and fulfilling walk, as she brings Gower's past to life, through beautiful images and words, through her gentle, dry wit and keen observation of life’s eccentricities. Such is the clarity of her writing it will feel like you are walking the journey with her.
A recommended read from a very entertaining and informative travel guide.
- Reading age10 - 18 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date18 May 2019
Product details
- ASIN : B07S2N313K
- Language : English
- File size : 32832 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 210 pages
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About the author

Born in Hereford, educated in Cardiff and London, I am a professional Swansea-based contemporary artist, specializing in oil paintings. I also spend part of the year in Burtonport, Donegal, Ireland.
All my life I have loved being creative – whether it was drawing and sketching as a teenager, drawing with oil pastels and screen print-making in my 20s and finally focusing on photography and oil painting in adult life. I originally trained as a professional Medieval Historian and then worked in Secondary Education for almost two decades until my life took an unexpected turn. On 29th February 2012, I was involved in a car accident which led to me developing PTSD and having a breakdown. My emotional recovery was long and exhausting and is still ongoing. Art was an essential part of that process and still is. I have been a professional artist since 2013, part-time until summer 2016 when I became a full-time professional artist.
I paint most days. My work focuses on light and color, whether I paint rural landscapes, urban streets, seascapes or figurative work. I like to paint people walking around in their everyday lives, painting moods, anticipations, and atmospheres, trying to express presence and pathos. I notice things that others miss. I am fascinated by light and color but also details.
In my work, I am drawn to light and shadows and how they shape our emotions. I remember visiting the South of France as a teenager and being mesmerized by the dazzling light, I have been attempting to capture that excitement about light in my paintings ever since. I aim to make people look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary beauty in it.
Much of my work is inspired by American and Canadian artists, mainly American realist painters who paint the quiet, the spacious and the still and revere a certain treatment of light and color. Artists such as Edward Hopper, Jim Holland, John Register, Frank Hobbs as well as Contemporary Minimalists such as Christopher Benson, Leah Giberson, Tom McKinley, Mitchell, Johnson, Jessica Brilli and Emmett Kerrigan. I aim to bring an American sensibility to a Welsh urban and rural landscape.
My work is in hundreds of private collections around the world; UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Malta, Canada, USA, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, and Australia. My work is also available in John Lewis.
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