The New Ashgate in Farnham, our local art gallery, is holding an exhibition of paintings by Emma Dunbar, titled “Journeys Afar and Back in the Kitchen”. I adore Emma’s paintings! I like the bold, bright colours, the colour pallettes and the subjects of joyful flowers and the occasional animal. I also really like the flat, almost two-dimensional and slightly ‘child-like’ quality of the paintings.
The photographs here (from the New Ashgate Gallery website) simply cannot reflect how incredibly vibrant and full of life these paintings are.

Emma Dunbar: A Riotous Bunch on Yellow

Emma Dunbar: Fresh From The Flower Market

Emma Dunbar: Lone Walker
The New Ashgate Gallery Website, says this about the exhibition:
“29 April to 17 June 2017
Emma Dunbar: Journeys Afar and Back in the Kitchen
We are delighted to welcome Emma Dunbar back for her much anticipated new solo exhibition. Emma paints in Hampshire and Cornwall. Her attraction to colour and the decorative qualities in everyday objects provide the foundation for her art.
Emma works mainly on board in acrylic, occasionally incorporating collage with gold and silver leaf. Her training as a printmaker is evident both in the use of blocks of flat colour and in the way she scratches through surfaces to reveal pre-laid colours underneath. This exhibition draws inspiration from daily walks and recent trips to Greece, Iceland and Austria. Beautiful fruits in the greengrocer, her brown cats, Eric and Ian, and Simon the dog, next to her ever growing collection of mugs and jugs with flowers from the garden, all come joyfully together to celebrate the ordinary.”