Vicky Emby

Painter • Printmaker
Contemporary Artist based in Devon

Berry Head

Acrylic on board

Bolberry

Monotype Print on Unica Fabriano paper

Coal Tit

Acrylic on board

© Vicky Emby 2026 • All rights reserved

© Vicky Emby 2026 • All rights reserved

© Vicky Emby 2026 • All rights reserved

© Vicky Emby 2026 • All rights reserved

About

My work is informed by the natural world. My process often starts with walking, sketching and looking, absorbing information, forming images in my mind.
That connection to place and the natural world is important and constant and a source of great inspiration to my work. In my landscapes I strive to evoke a mood of a place, using bold sweeps of paint to communicate the vitality and energy of light, colour and shadow.
My Monotype prints like my paintings are unique. I create gestural shapes in colour, layering them to build layers and structures that form land, sea and sky. The process of making a print enables me to distil the information from my paintings to produce a different form of art and that in turn feeds back into my paintings.My bird series began as a study in presence and movement, combining botanical studies with the gestural looseness that runs through my landscape work. These paintings grow from quiet moments of watching gulls riding the wind, small woodland birds flickering through branches, waders lifting from the tideline. I’m drawn to their energy, fragility and resilience, and to the way they inhabit the shifting light of the Devon coast.Many of the life forms I paint are endangered or threatened species, painting them for me is a way of highlighing both their beauty and their fragility in the world we all share.EducationBA (Hons) Illustration Brighton UniversityTeachingDrawing Lecturer Loughborough School of Design and Creative Arts
Visiting Lecturer Central St Martins College of Art London
Visiting Lecturer Bath School of Art

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Recent Exhibitions

25th/26th July 2026 Solo exhibition Studio 40 Dartington Estate
2025 Birdwood house Totnes
2025 South West Academy Kennaway House Sidmouth
2025 Brixham Art society Summer Exhibition Scala Hall
2024 The Roundhouse Dartington
2023 The Honnor press South Brent Studio
2022 Harbour House Kingsbridge
2022 Wales Contemporary Milford Haven
2020 Lyme Bay Arts Dorset Printmakers Open
2019 Royal West Academy Bristol
2019 Dartington print workshop Printmakers books
2019 Delamore Arts Cornwood
2019 Devon Artist Network spring exhibition Kingsbridge
2019 Bigger Picture Gallery Crediton
2019 South West Academy Exeter Castle
2019 Town Mill Arts printmakers open Lyme Regis
2018 Off the peg Printmakers show Dartington
2018 Solo show Birdwood House Totnes
2017 South West Academy Exeter
2017 Evolver Prize Thelma Hulbert Gallery Honiton
2017 Group exhibition Harbour House Kingsbridge
2016 Group show Webbers Yard Dartington
2016 Dartington Print workshop group show
Exhibiting at Textile trade shows 2000-2015
Premier Vision Paris
Texprint Como Italy
Comocrea Como Italy
London Textile fair Islington
Featured / Awards
2023/2025 Best in show Brixham Art Society Artist Publishing Company Award 2017 South West Academy
2017 Featured in The Art Edit House and Garden Magazine


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Contact

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