Emma Haggas (b.1963)

Emma Haggas (b.1963)

Chrissie's Flowers

Signed with initials ECH (lower left)

Oil on board

48cm x 43cm

Framed (54cm x 48.5cm including frame)

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

During the last few years Emma has really started to enjoy 'paint', the experience of colours, making a harmonised palette and learning how to place them in a free and exciting way. Studying artists such as Ivon Hitchens, Cezanne and Keith Vaughan has helped this. Rather than painting the landscape as it is, using the paint is a way of expressing a personal response to it.

Her oil-based paintings are inspired by the beautiful surroundings of her Wiltshire home and the stunning seascapes of the North Cornish coast.

After leaving North London Collegiate School for Girls in 1982, Emma studied Fine Art, History of Art and Education at Homerton College, Cambridge qualifying with a B.Ed Degree in 1986.

She then taught A Level Art and Design at Kingston Grammar School for 4 years. She stopped teaching to concentrate on her own work and had her first solo exhibition at the Ozten Zeki Gallery, Walton Street, Chelsea in 1992 and a second exhibition in 1993 at the Marryat Gallery, Richmond, Surrey.

Since 2014 she has shown regularly with:

· Josie Eastwood Fine Art in Hampshire,

· Cricket Fine Art in London,

· McAllister Thomas Fine Art in Godalming, Surrey

· Claremont Gallery in Sevenoaks,

· Rosvik Goup in Hampshire,

· Quiddity Fine Art in Hampshire,

· Affordable Art Fair in London,

and more recently been introduced to:

· Jerram Gallery in Sherborne, Dorset; and

· British Art Portfolio, all over the UK