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Emma Johnson is an Illustrator, Community Arts Instigator and Stop Motion Animator.

 

Influences and Training

Raised on a diet of Pigeon Street, Creature Comforts, and Monty Python, she has a unique and eclectic artistic sensibility with a penchant for the absurd and a need to explore some shady spots of human experience, her work is playful, dipped in ink, offering frank social commentary with a humorous twist. 

Emma found her path back to making via Arts on Prescription, through NCFE, Illustration Foundation at Petroc and completing her MA in Illustration at Falmouth University.

 

"She has found her visual habitat, puddling jumping from digital to analogue . Her work is a heady cocktail of colours, a carboot of media, 90s typography, stitching and body parts found in the recycling bin". 

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What's the BIG IDEA?

Whilst her work does explore difficult themes,  Emma is passionate about reducing loneliness, building  community and fostering inclusion through her art. She believes that art has the power to bring people together and raise morale, she committed to inclusive design, removing barriers to create a vibrant cultural society.

She was an Acupuncturist in a previous life and champions self care activism.  As the creator of the Self Love Club Zine workshop host and innovator of Art Drop, in partnership with Northern Devon Food-bank and the Burton at Bideford, she can regularly be found brain-storming schemes to build creative confidence and engage “visual magpie” mode!  You can also find her running Sketch Walks in the Northam Burrows Country Park or Exmoor National Park.

More recently inspired by Mary & Max, Ice Merchants, and Steve Cutts, her work is playful, dipped in ink, offering frank social commentary with a darkly humorous twist.