Walk past the art deco styled cottage - which happens to be hidden from the road by a forrest of bamboo - and along a curving path through more woods and you come upon Emily’s Quonset hut studio.  The quiet outside and inside belies the activity that goes on when she’s ready to resume or begin work on one of her oversized landscapes, or on the portraits that herald her most recent exploration.  Her style is somewhere in between.   In between realism and abstract, something you’ve seen before and something you’ve perhaps only dreamed, the familiar and the unfamiliar.  When Emily found this place, the walls were rough pieces of plywood, the floor was of gravel, and few windows were installed.  She built walls, poured concrete, installed windows and a north-facing roll-up industrial door.  Everything is super sized, from the wall she erected to hang her large canvases while she worked on them to the tables that might handle the next size down.  For her super-sized pieces, only the floor will do.  A typical morning begins with thought and meditation, pondering the current canvas, puttzing around a bit, tinkering, and then she’s ready to pick up the pace and get after it.  Formerly an early-to-rise and late-to-call-it-a-day kind of artist, she’s recently begun to bring more balance into her life...

From the artist: “I’m trying to give a little bit more of myself to the rest of my life.  I think my work actually benefits.

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