Emma Lock

Is a contemporary artist whose work is deeply rooted in the natural world, reimagined into expressive, abstract landscapes. Guided by emotion and intuition, she works primarily with acrylic paint, pastels, and graphite, layering her materials to evoke both depth and serenity.

Emma’s creative process is a delicate dance between control and surrender—structured gestures meet spontaneous marks, resulting in compositions that hold tension and stillness in equal measure. Her paintings explore the complexity of emotion and the subtle beauty found in contrast: chaos balanced with calm, fullness pared back to essential lines and textures.

Through repeated layering and reduction, Emma reveals the raw, organic moments that give her work its distinctive energy and life. She invites the viewer into a world where instinct leads, and where every mark tells a story of letting go.

ARTIST STATEMENT

At the core of my practice is a desire to create a space for emotional connection. I aim for my work to resonate on a visceral level—to evoke a response in the viewer that feels instinctive, almost bodily. I want people to not only feel something, but to pause and question why they feel it, to sit with that emotion and let it unfold.

Abstract art has always drawn me in because it bypasses language and logic—it goes straight to the gut. For me, colour, shape, and mark-making are deeply emotive; they carry memory, tension, and release. When I paint, I’m not just building a composition—I’m expressing something that can’t be said in words. It’s an honest and intuitive process that allows me to translate emotion into form.

Using materials like acrylic, pastel, and graphite, I work in layers—both revealing and obscuring—as a way to explore the complexities of emotion and experience. This layering becomes a metaphor for life itself: moments of clarity, of chaos, of stillness.

Ultimately, I hope my paintings offer viewers a moment of reflection—a quiet invitation to feel deeply and connect with something within themselves., but if it is too beautiful then it has no substance. the push and pull of this impossible standard and the effects it has.