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Em Whiteford
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Em Whiteford
About Em
Paintings
Workshops
Timeline
Shop
Contact
About Em
Paintings
Workshops
Timeline
Shop
Contact
I’m back in the stormy Highlands, and giving myself time to slowly return to the easel. 

The dark skies and wild seas couldn’t be more perfect for painting- I’m truly in my happy place here and finally feeling ready for some new wo
It’s been so lovely to receive such a positive reaction to these smaller pieces in the last couple of weeks. I’m super excited to continue working with watercolours, and producing these tiny works in the future! 

Watercolour on handmade
Thank you so much to everyone who came by to see mine and @sheila_r_maclean ‘s work last weekend! It was such a lovely atmosphere and great to meet so many friendly faces.

I’m now slowly readjusting to being home despite a slightly rocky
CREATIVE X WELLNESS WORKSHOP ✨

I’m so excited to announce that I’m holding another creative wellness workshop at the stunning @anotherplacehotels in the gorgeous Lake District this Autumn 🤍

Join us for a relaxing, restoring creative da
The end of this adventure, and the beginning of another 🤍 

Almost 9,000 NM at sea, 140 days, and a whole lot of waves we have weathered together. He is the most incredible person I have ever met, and there are no words to describe how in awe I am o
‘You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Light • Air • Salt • Breath

The quality of light in Australia is a little different to the UK, somehow it seems brighter, and casts everything in a myriad of colour. The trees have cooler tones, and the sea is sometimes like a mirror
‘I miss the Shire. I spent all my life pretending I was off somewhere else. Off with you, on one of your adventures. But my own adventure turned out to be quite different.’ 
🤍

I’ve been loving spending time in Australia, but my he
Some of the mounted pieces which are currently available at the Harbour Cottage Gallery Open Exhibition.

The Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright will always have a special place in my heart, being the first gallery in which I organised, curated
There is a beautiful part of Aboriginal culture that I learned about recently, in that creation stories and stories of the land and sea- which carry deep knowledge and cultural history- were and still are passed through generations, and criss-cross t
I’m so excited to say that my work has been selected for the Big Art Show in Scotland, and will be exhibited in the Art Department Gallery in Glasgow next month! 

The exhibition runs from the 15th August to the 31st October, and I cannot wait

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