Art Sunday; Emma Davis

Taken from this web site;

http://www.tolquhon-gallery.co.uk/Artists/emma%20s.davis%20rsw.htm

EMMA S.DAVIS RSW was born in Ayrshire into a family of artists. Her father, mother and brother are all respected artists.  She studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art graduating in 1998. While still a student, she exhibited in a number of Scottish galleries. This culminated in a sell-out Degree Show and her work has been in demand ever since.
 
Emma was the youngest ever winner of the Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award, awarded to her at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) in 1999. This award enabled her to travel extensively in Italy during 2000. As a result she  successfully exhibited many paintings of Italy at the annual RSW exhibition in 2001. She was elected an artist member of the RSW in the same year and in 2002 she was awarded the Sir William Gillies award at the RSW.
 
Emma's favourite subject matter is landscape but she also enjoys Still Life and enjoys combining paint with textiles and experimenting with different patterns and textures.
"I have a great love for the Scottish landscape, the daily changes in light and colour of our landscape influence the way I work every day, along with my own moods and emotions about particular areas I am painting.  My paintings have a textural quality, I like to "play" with different marks with my paint.  Collage of different materials, puddles and occasionally the "happy accident" are how my paintings come together alongside my favourite palette of rich pinks, indigoes and violets  - I am definitely a colourist at heart."

More of her paintings here
http://www.scottishartpaintings.co.uk/artist-emma-s-davis.asp

I don't have any thing to add to this except that I have seen a couple of her works and they really do have a very special quality, the colours are subtle and soft and perfectly represent the soft shades of the scottish landscape. She captures the essence of the Scottish  landscape.