MORNINGSIDE GALLERY
EMILY POWELL
THE LAND BELOW THE WAVES
EMILY POWELL
THE LAND BELOW THE WAVES
SOLO EXHIBITION 29.06.24 - 13.07.24
MORNINGSIDE GALLERY
INTRODUCTION June 2024
It is with a unique mix of fearlessness and trust, along with a keen sense of adventure, that an artist sets off for a tiny Scottish island that she has never heard of for two weeks, with not much more than a van of blank canvases and a solo exhibition deadline, husband and two year old daughter in tow. That artist is Emily Powell, and the island is Tiree, a slither of an island three miles wide and thirteen long, fondly known as the Land Below the Waves. What Emily found on Tiree was a sky so big it seemed to hold the world in it, deep turquoise seas, colourful boats bobbing in the harbour, and beaches of bleached white sand shimmering with the iridescence of long crushed shells. Black houses, clustered together like old friends dotted over the island, pink and purple sea thrift fringing the shoreline, bright yellow mosses singing against the black of rock, and oyster catchers - their beaks a gift of bright red against a grey sky. And of course, a Scottish wind that whipped against her cheeks. A feeling of being truly alive. It is this feeling that Emily conveys so urgently on the canvas, this ‘being alive-ness’, inviting us to feel it with her too. This force of life that drives Emily to seek out new places where she can explore, feel and paint is the real subject of this exhibition and each of Emily’s paintings express the joy that comes with being adventurous and taking risks, living fully as an artist and as a mother. Free of artifice and convention, the colours sing, and Emily’s subjects - birds, rocks, boats, cottages - are all equally alive on the canvas. Following her brushstrokes we feel both the wind and the freedom. Here, all is well.
Eileadh Swan Gallery Director
I LOVE TIREE Mixed Media on Canvas | £3250 Framed Size: 107 x 107 cm
TIREE COWS WERE VERY CONFIDENT COWS Mixed Media on Canvas Board | £1350 Framed Size: 63 x 53 cm
THIS PLACE GLOWS Mixed Media on Canvas Board | £1350 Framed Size: 63 x 53 cm
MATISSE BLUE ON TIREE Mixed Media on Board | £2500 Framed Size: 129 x 87 cm
ONE OF THE ONLY HILLS ON TIREE Mixed Media on Canvas | £2050 Framed Size: 87 x 87 cm
THE BIRDS OWNED THE ISLAND Mixed Media on Board | £1200 Framed Size: 58 x 48 cm
THE ROCKS HAD SLEPT FOR 1000 YEARS Mixed Media on Canvas | £1200 Framed Size: 58 x 48 cm
THE OLD HARBOUR AT SCARINISH Mixed Media on Canvas | £7800 Framed Size: 207 x 167 cm
Prev ious : TIREE IS SOUL LIFTING Mixed Media on Board | £2400 Framed Size: 129 x 68 cm
Right : WE WERE ALL VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE Mixed Media on Board | £1800 Framed Size: 88 x 68 cm
JUST BEFORE SUNSET Mixed Media on Board | £1450 Framed Size: 67 x 67 cm
LIGHT BRIGHT BIG BEACH Mixed Media on Canvas | £1450 Framed Size: 67 x 67 cm
PINK GLOW AT THE LOCH Mixed Media on Canvas | £7800 Framed Size: 157 x 207 cm
TROPICAL TIREE Mixed Media on Canvas | £3250 Framed Size:107 x 107 cm
EVEN THE COTTAGES SEEMED ALIVE Mixed Media on Board | £1200 Framed Size: 57 x 47 cm
SWEET, SWEET BALEMARTINE Mixed Media on Board | £1200 Framed Size: 58 x 48 cm
Prev ious : PUDDING HOUSES OF TIREE Mixed Media on Board | £2400 Framed Size: 129 x 68 cm
Right : THE CLOUDS ROLLED ACROSS TIREE Mixed Media on Canvas | £1800 Framed Size: 87 x 67 cm
YEARS OF YOU AND I’M STILL IN LOVE Mixed Media on Canvas | £3600 Framed Size: 127 x 107 cm
RAINBOW OLD HARBOUR Mixed Media on Canvas | £2050 Framed Size: 87 x 87 cm
THE PINK REPRESENTS THE HAPPINESS HERE Mixed Media on Board | £1100 Framed Size: 53 x 43 cm
TIREE’S GOOD ENERGY Mixed Media on Board | £1100 Framed Size: 53 x 43 cm
WILD WEDNESDAY Mixed Media on Board | £2050 Framed Size:99 x 68 cm
WE DANCED IN THE RAIN Mixed Media on Board | £1200 Framed Size: 58 x 48 cm
LOOKING OUT FROM HYNISH Mixed Media on Board | £1100 Framed Size: 53 x 43 cm
THE WILDER SIDE OF THE ISLAND Mixed Media on Canvas | £1550 Framed Size: 83 x 58 cm
SOROBAIDH BAY Mixed Media on Canvas Board | £1550 Framed Size: 83 x 58 cm
LOVE ON THE LOCH Mixed Media on Canvas Board | £1550 Framed Size: 83 x 58 cm
ICE CREAM SUNSET Mixed Media on Board | £1450 Framed Size: 68 x 68 cm
IT WAS GOOD TO BE A SEAL Mixed Media on Paper | £1050 Framed Size: 55 x 43 cm
THE SKY HERE IS A SCOTTISH DREAM Mixed Media on Paper | £1400 Framed Size: 73 x 55 cm
THE COMFORT OF TIREE Mixed Media on Paper | £1850 Framed Size: 96 x 73 cm
HIYA FROM THE SEALS Mixed Media on Canvas Board | £1050 Framed Size: 55 x 43 cm
CORMORANTS AND SHAGS ON TIREE Mixed Media on Canvas Board | £1050 Framed Size: 55 x 43 cm
MEDICINE FOR A SORE HEART Mixed Media on Canvas | £3250 Framed Size:107 x 107 cm
TITLE TBC Mixed Media on Canvas | £3250 Framed Size:107 x 107 cm
HEAVEN AT HYNISH Mixed Media on Canvas Board | £1050 Framed Size: 55 x 43 cm
TEA AND FRUIT ON TIREE Mixed Media on Paper | £1400 Framed Size: 66 x 48 cm
FLOWERS FROM TIREE Mixed Media on Canvas | £3250 Framed Size:107 x 107 cm
SIT WITH ME HERE IN THE FLOWERS Mixed Media on Canvas | £3250 Framed Size:107 x 107 cm
EMILY POWELL
Emily Powell is a contemporary artist living in Devon, with a studio on the edge of Dartmoor. Often working on a large scale, colour, joy and freedom pour out of her paintings, from evocative landscapes of Devon and Scotland to surreal still lifes, powerful abstracts, grand florals, ethereal flying wildlife and the journey of domestic life with her husband and young daughter. Expressive, unapologetically positive and full of emotion, Emily’s paintings resonate with collectors worldwide and have generated her a 35k+ Instagram following. Growing up in Liverpool, Emily studied at Norwich School of Art for her formal training, with a sabbatical at the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (2008-2011). She has exhibited with the Royal Society of Art, collaborated with MoMA, the National Galleries of Scotland and The British Museum, and was part of the 2020 BBC Documentary for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Show. Emily has also been a guest lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. In 2022 Emily published her first book, Start Painting Now, and in the same year she was invited to paint the front entrance at Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children. In the summer of 2022 a solo show in St Ives, The Year Of The Tiger, led her to be hailed as ‘one of the most important emerging artists in the UK today’. Early 2024 saw a successful solo exhibition at London’s Portland Gallery and there have been many mixed and solo shows in between. Emily has exhibited with Morningside Gallery since 2019, within mixed exhibitions. Her joyful works fea - tured regularly in the gallery windows throughout the months/years of lockdowns, connecting people and generating responses we have rarely seen before or since. Notes of appreciation appeared through our letter box from passers by, NHS staff, regular clients and children. That strangely distanced time has thankfully now passed but the importance of warmth and human connection remains. We hope that you will feel some of Emily’s uplifting and positive energy through the work in this exhibition.
All paintings are for sale and may be purchased or reserved upon receipt of this catalogue. We kindly request that decisions on reserves are made before noon on Friday the 28th of June. Additional unframed small paintings and works on paper are available and can be viewed via the link below:
SMALL UNFRAMED PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER
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