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Emma is an illustrator and writer living near the coast in Suffolk UK. She qualified in graphic design at The Norfolk Institute of Art and Design (Norwich School of Art) and in her early career worked in publishing and packaging design. Since graduating, she has worked with clients including Thompson and Morgan UK, Suffolk County Council, Ipswich Borough Council, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Wild in Art, NHS Ipswich, Genesis Plant Marketing, Little Fig Publishing, Scholastic schools magazine, and Suffolk Mind, illustrating everything from picture books, book covers, to seed packets, greetings cards, school magazines, private commissions, running children’s art clubs and painting Wild in Art sculptures. Emma comes from a creative family; both her mother and grandmother were highly collected artists and her father a photographer. She was always surrounded by beautiful books as her parents were avid collectors. They also ran a highly acclaimed gallery in the late 70's in Norwich, so she grew up in a creative background of artists, printmakers, potters and sculptors. Emma is also a qualified horticulturalist and in 2007 was awarded an RHS Silver Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for and exhibit that she designed, illustrated and constructed for Thompson & Morgan UK. In 2014 Emma exhibited at Ipswich art school in the Once Upon a Time exhibition alongside the likes of Margaret Tempest and Nick Butterworth. Emma’s work is hand drawn in acrylic inks, collage and a bit of digital too and has been described as whimsical, and the new day Beatrix Potter (this always makes her smile). She finds inspiration in the natural world, local countryside and coast, myths and legends, and from both modern and classic children’s stories. Her story ‘The Owl who wanted to sing’ was a finalist in the Stratford Literary Festival’s Stratford-Salariya Prize for picture books 2017. Again this story along with another of her own ‘Tyranno-ROAR-us REX’ were longlisted in the Searchlight Picture book Awards in 2023. In 2024 her story ‘Good night, sleep tight’ was longlisted for the Clavis Key Colours international picture book competition. If she is not in her studio, Emma will be found ‘pottering’ in the garden, walking in the woods or wild swimming in the local river (yes all year), if she is immersed in nature or a good book or art, she’s happy.…Emma is an illustrator and writer living near the coast in Suffolk UK. She qualified in graphic design at The Norfolk Institute of Art and Design (Norwich School of Art) and in her early career worked in publishing and packaging design. Since graduating, she has worked with clients including Thompson and Morgan UK, Suffolk County Council, Ipswich Borough Council, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Wild in Art, NHS Ipswich, Genesis Plant Marketing, Little Fig Publishing, Scholastic schools magazine, and Suffolk Mind, illustrating everything from picture books, book covers, to seed packets, greetings cards, school magazines, private commissions, running children’s art clubs and painting Wild in Art sculptures. Emma comes from a creative family; both her mother and grandmother were highly collected artists and her father a photographer. She was always surrounded by beautiful books as her parents were avid collectors. They also ran a highly acclaimed gallery in the late 70's in Norwich, so she grew up in a creative background of artists, printmakers, potters and sculptors. Emma is also a qualified horticulturalist and in 2007 was awarded an RHS Silver Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for and exhibit that she designed, illustrated and constructed for Thompson & Morgan UK. In 2014 Emma exhibited at Ipswich art school in the Once Upon a Time exhibition alongside the likes of Margaret Tempest and Nick Butterworth. Emma’s work is hand drawn in acrylic inks, collage and a bit of digital too and has been described as whimsical, and the new day Beatrix Potter (this always makes her smile). She finds inspiration in the natural world, local countryside and coast, myths and legends, and from both modern and classic children’s stories. Her story ‘The Owl who wanted to sing’ was a finalist in the Stratford Literary Festival’s Stratford-Salariya Prize for picture books 2017. Again this story along with another of her own ‘Tyranno-ROAR-us REX’ were longlisted in the Searchlight Picture book Awards in 2023. In 2024 her story ‘Good night, sleep tight’ was longlisted for the Clavis Key Colours international picture book competition. If she is not in her studio, Emma will be found ‘pottering’ in the garden, walking in the woods or wild swimming in the local river (yes all year), if she is immersed in nature or a good book or art, she’s happy.

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Emma is an illustrator and writer living near the coast in Suffolk UK. She qualified in graphic design at The Norfolk Institute of Art and Design (Norwich School of Art) and in her early career worked in publishing and packaging design. Since graduating, she has worked with clients including Thompson and Morgan UK, Suffolk County Council, Ipswich Borough Council, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Wild in Art, NHS Ipswich, Genesis Plant Marketing, Little Fig Publishing, Scholastic schools magazine, and Suffolk Mind, illustrating everything from picture books, book covers, to seed packets, greetings cards, school magazines, private commissions, running children’s art clubs and painting Wild in Art sculptures. Emma comes from a creative family; both her mother and grandmother were highly collected artists and her father a photographer. She was always surrounded by beautiful books as her parents were avid collectors. They also ran a highly acclaimed gallery in the late 70's in Norwich, so she grew up in a creative background of artists, printmakers, potters and sculptors. Emma is also a qualified horticulturalist and in 2007 was awarded an RHS Silver Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for and exhibit that she designed, illustrated and constructed for Thompson & Morgan UK. In 2014 Emma exhibited at Ipswich art school in the Once Upon a Time exhibition alongside the likes of Margaret Tempest and Nick Butterworth. Emma’s work is hand drawn in acrylic inks, collage and a bit of digital too and has been described as whimsical, and the new day Beatrix Potter (this always makes her smile). She finds inspiration in the natural world, local countryside and coast, myths and legends, and from both modern and classic children’s stories. Her story ‘The Owl who wanted to sing’ was a finalist in the Stratford Literary Festival’s Stratford-Salariya Prize for picture books 2017. Again this story along with another of her own ‘Tyranno-ROAR-us REX’ were longlisted in the Searchlight Picture book Awards in 2023. In 2024 her story ‘Good night, sleep tight’ was longlisted for the Clavis Key Colours international picture book competition. If she is not in her studio, Emma will be found ‘pottering’ in the garden, walking in the woods or wild swimming in the local river (yes all year), if she is immersed in nature or a good book or art, she’s happy.…Emma is an illustrator and writer living near the coast in Suffolk UK. She qualified in graphic design at The Norfolk Institute of Art and Design (Norwich School of Art) and in her early career worked in publishing and packaging design. Since graduating, she has worked with clients including Thompson and Morgan UK, Suffolk County Council, Ipswich Borough Council, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Wild in Art, NHS Ipswich, Genesis Plant Marketing, Little Fig Publishing, Scholastic schools magazine, and Suffolk Mind, illustrating everything from picture books, book covers, to seed packets, greetings cards, school magazines, private commissions, running children’s art clubs and painting Wild in Art sculptures. Emma comes from a creative family; both her mother and grandmother were highly collected artists and her father a photographer. She was always surrounded by beautiful books as her parents were avid collectors. They also ran a highly acclaimed gallery in the late 70's in Norwich, so she grew up in a creative background of artists, printmakers, potters and sculptors. Emma is also a qualified horticulturalist and in 2007 was awarded an RHS Silver Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for and exhibit that she designed, illustrated and constructed for Thompson & Morgan UK. In 2014 Emma exhibited at Ipswich art school in the Once Upon a Time exhibition alongside the likes of Margaret Tempest and Nick Butterworth. Emma’s work is hand drawn in acrylic inks, collage and a bit of digital too and has been described as whimsical, and the new day Beatrix Potter (this always makes her smile). She finds inspiration in the natural world, local countryside and coast, myths and legends, and from both modern and classic children’s stories. Her story ‘The Owl who wanted to sing’ was a finalist in the Stratford Literary Festival’s Stratford-Salariya Prize for picture books 2017. Again this story along with another of her own ‘Tyranno-ROAR-us REX’ were longlisted in the Searchlight Picture book Awards in 2023. In 2024 her story ‘Good night, sleep tight’ was longlisted for the Clavis Key Colours international picture book competition. If she is not in her studio, Emma will be found ‘pottering’ in the garden, walking in the woods or wild swimming in the local river (yes all year), if she is immersed in nature or a good book or art, she’s happy.

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Emma is an illustrator and writer living near the coast in Suffolk UK. She qualified in graphic design at The Norfolk Institute of Art and Design (Norwich School of Art) and in her early career worked in publishing and packaging design. Since graduating, she has worked with clients including Thompson and Morgan UK, Suffolk County Council, Ipswich Borough Council, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Wild in Art, NHS Ipswich, Genesis Plant Marketing, Little Fig Publishing, Scholastic schools magazine, and Suffolk Mind, illustrating everything from picture books, book covers, to seed packets, greetings cards, school magazines, private commissions, running children’s art clubs and painting Wild in Art sculptures.
Emma comes from a creative family; both her mother and grandmother were highly collected artists and her father a photographer. She was always surrounded by beautiful books as her parents were avid collectors. They also ran a highly acclaimed gallery in the late 70’s in Norwich, so she grew up in a creative background of artists, printmakers, potters and sculptors.
Emma is also a qualified horticulturalist and in 2007 was awarded an RHS Silver Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for and exhibit that she designed, illustrated and constructed for Thompson & Morgan UK.
In 2014 Emma exhibited at Ipswich art school in the Once Upon a Time exhibition alongside the likes of Margaret Tempest and Nick Butterworth.
Emma’s work is hand drawn in acrylic inks, collage and a bit of digital too and has been described as whimsical, and the new day Beatrix Potter (this always makes her smile). She finds inspiration in the natural world, local countryside and coast, myths and legends, and from both modern and classic children’s stories.
Her story ‘The Owl who wanted to sing’ was a finalist in the Stratford Literary Festival’s Stratford-Salariya Prize for picture books 2017. Again this story along with another of her own ‘Tyranno-ROAR-us REX’ were longlisted in the Searchlight Picture book Awards in 2023. In 2024 her story ‘Good night, sleep tight’ was longlisted for the Clavis Key Colours international picture book competition.
If she is not in her studio, Emma will be found ‘pottering’ in the garden, walking in the woods or wild swimming in the local river (yes all year), if she is immersed in nature or a good book or art, she’s happy.