About Emma Sian Pritchard
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Education
1985 - 1986
West Wales College of Art and Design
1978 - 1984
Tre-Gib in ffairfach
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Event: RHS Flower show
Dates: 13 Apr 2018 - 15 Apr 2018
The first of the 2018 Royal horticultural flower shows. This one is situated in Sophia gardens, which is next door to Cardiff castle. A beautiful location and at a time when all the blossom is in bloom.
I will be showing my work from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th of April
Event: International Food and Drink Festival
Dates: 8 Jul 2016 - 10 Jul 2016
You will find the 3 day event in Cardiff Bay so enjoyable.
Food, drink from locally sourced and around the world.
There are also 50 or more stalls of artwork, woodwork, photography, hand made clothes, ceramics, professional silverware jewellery and more!
There is also live music
I will be there with my paintings
opening times 11am-9pm Friday and Saturday
11am-6pm Sunday
Event: Urdd Eisteddfod
Dates: 25 May 2015 - 30 May 2015
I am on the judging panel this year for the Scholarship award of £2000 age category 19-25 for 2D art.
My work will also be on exhibit in the main art pavilion.
What is the Eisteddfod?
The Eisteddfod is one of the
largest festivals in Europe
with over 15,000 children and
young people between 8-25
years old competing annually.
–––––– Most of the competitions take
place in the Pavilion, from singing and
dancing to reciting and performing
––––––The Eisteddfod is a six day festival
for all the family
––––––The Eisteddfod attracts around
90,000 visitors each year.
––––––The Maes is full of activities for
the whole family- sports, shows, circus
skills, music and much more!
––––––There are plenty of shops selling
Welsh goods and toys on the Maes.
––––––Science Exhibition, Art and Crafts
exhibition and a Performing Stage
–––––– Cwtsh y Dysgwyr for Welsh
learners of all levels
––––––A fun filled festival for the whole
family
––––––We welcome Welsh speakers and
learners!
Event: Gallery Off The Wall Cardiff
Dates: 3 Oct 2011 - 3 Apr 2015
Ongoing, visit their website
I have had exhibitions at The Gate in Cardiff
Also in Newport
I have had exhibitions at The Thai House in Cardiff, giving 30% towards the tsunami in Thailand raising ver £2,000 to help build a new playground at a school.
I have exhibited and sold my work at the National Eisteddfod in Wales
I also regularly sell my work through art markets, especially at Christmas in Cardiff for 6 weeks every year. I have done this for the last 11 years.
I have had corporate commissions including moto nova finance, where I was commissioned to paint over 30 large paintings for the managers offices, board rooms and employees rest rooms, please see my facebook page for these images.
I sell al over the UK and have widely sold abroad.
I also sell through shops around Wales.
Thank you for your interest in my work
Emma
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Biography
"I have always created. I have painted all my life. Painting is a like an itch, a daily requirement, an urge, excitement. Creating is compulsive. I paint constantly, almost 7 days a week and still I love it. My ideas come intuitively, like a compulsion. Predominantly I do not have references, I follow the paint and let something new come to life. I feel all humans are creators, the key is to create our own creations. "
Emma has been selling her work on a full time basis since 2003. She was born in South Wales UK and raised by a very creative family. She lived in the historic roman town of Caerleon, then for a few years on the beautiful West Wales coastal town New Quay. Her family finally settled in the beautiful 'Towy valley' in Llandeilo, West Wales. Her home life was idillic, an old farm house in the middle of beautiful countryside with freedom to play outside all day with her younger sister. These early days have influenced her work immensely.
She is a passionate and prolific painter. She loves exploring the endless possibilities of harmony between shape, colour, texture and movement.
She is part trained and self taught. After her Art foundation course she began a display role in a large furniture company based in London in the exciting late 80's.
Emma paints almost everyday in her studio, an 18 century wool factory, which is also her home in south Wales, UK, about 30 minutes from Cardiff. ( NOTE: from April 2023 Emma relocated to Oxfordshire and at the time writing, her new studio is under construction and is working from her home in a quiet village near the Cotswolds)
Born of a business, musical and creative family the door was open for her to explore her passion with paint.
At the moment she is using mainly acrylic paint, it's fast drying qualities are perfect for the highly textured layered work that she creates.
Her work is bold and bursts with colour.
You can find her work in galleries and in private and public and corporate collections both home and abroad.
"Painting is like life, it's a journey, the joyous moment to moment juiciness of the unknown. Enjoyment of the painting is my passion and once completed it is time for the next one, the journey being as important as the 'end result'
Is it bold? clear? fresh? Does it 'pop?' are questions I ask myself at the end of a painting, if the answer is yes then the painting is finished. "
She has work all over the world including America, Nepal, Israel, France, Hong Kong, The Netherlands, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and Australia to name a few.
She has also worked considerably with corporate companies, producing original artwork for the workplace. An example of this is Motor Novo Finance, a hugely successful expanding business in Cardiff where she produced over 30 large paintings for board rooms/manager offices /reception areas.
She has prints in Dunelm stores UK
She has featured on local T.V. several times
She has had work in various magazines such as 25 beautiful homes and Cardiff Life.
Emma has worked as a professional artist since 2003 although has been selling her work since 1993.
