Emma Spence (b.1984)

Emma Spence (b.1984)
Heading to Lucinda's
Signed (in oil lower left) and further signed (in pen to reverse)
Mixed media
40 x 50cm

Horatio's Garden will receive 100% of the hammer price on this lot.

Emma Spence is an award winning mixed media artist who lives and works in Hillsborough, Co.Down. The hard work and honest sweat of the farmer has etched the life Emma Spence was born into and continues to live today. Her work aims to promote cultural recognition of the Irish rural landscape through the eyes of those that work, walk, or live in this land we call home. The intimacy of her work which focuses on the wild peripheries of the well-kept farmlands at close range is intense, beautiful and reflective. Her paintings portray the farmer’s view; the high hedgerow beside him as he walks the fields to bring the cows home for milking, the blackberries or hawthorn blossom surrounding him as they appear in the wild, ancient, hedge telling the cycle of the next season, the reeds and thistles by the river dividing his fields of home.