Emma graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge with an MA in  English Literature before studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservations of Easel Paintings at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

She has work in many private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London.

She undertakes commissions from small head studies to large group portraits, and is particularly interested in painting people in their working environment, surrounded by the tools of their trade.

Emma has work in many private and public collections, and has recently undertaken commissions for, amongst others, the National Portrait Gallery, the Inner Temple, All Souls College, Oxford, Christ’s College, Cambridge, the University of East Anglia and the Nuffield Hospital, Oxford.