Emma Stibbon
160 x 106.5cm (frame)
“I often work with media that is sourced from the landscapes that I’m working from such as local earth pigments, ash and burnt timber. It interested me that the seaweed ink is sourced from a small Community Benefit Society in St Davids, Pembrokeshire that focuses on regenerative farming and responsible local fishing. I decided to draw a section of coastline situated just off St Davids that would be local to the seaweed source. The ink has a slight smell of the sea about and in making the drawing it seemed appropriate to dilute it with sea water giving the drawing a grainy quality.
I’m interested in the temporal aspects of landscape, how it both evolves over deep geological time and within our own lifetime. Along the UK coastline you can see many cliff falls and I feel an increasing awareness that with climate warming these are only set to increase due to rising sea levels and extreme weather events.”
- Emma Stibbon
Exhibitions
Art For Your Oceans: Sotheby's, London (2025), Hastings Contemporary (2025)