Born in West Yorkshire and educated at the Royal College of Art in London, Emma Lawrenson is an award winning artist whose work is exhibited in numerous galleries across the UK and Europe, including the Royal Academy, and her work is sold worldwide. Emma works from her studio in the small village of Jackson Bridge near Holmfirth. She was elected an RE in 2024. (Royal Society of Printmakers) 

Each piece of work is hand screen-printed, sometimes in up to 20 colours using traditional techniques. This is a very labour intensive process requiring each colour to be printed individually, left to dry and then the next layer of colour applied. Some of the prints are finished with pencil or conte crayon. Everything from beginning to end is hand drawn, hand cut and hand printed. 

She begins each print by hand-drawing every stencil. The drawings themselves are relatively simple in structure and execution. However, it is the whole process of building up the prints, little by little, layer by layer that fascinates her. 

Emma approaches printmaking as a recording process of ideas, feelings and moments in time; where inspiration is gathered from the changing seasons and fabric of the landscape. She tries to preserve these moments and memories through layering and hand-drawn marks, with interactions of subtle colour. Colour is the poetic language that binds it all together and she works with it intuitively to create ‘quiet’ prints with a feeling of calm.