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Em Whiteford
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Em Whiteford
About Em
Paintings
Workshops
Timeline
Shop
Contact
About Em
Paintings
Workshops
Timeline
Shop
Contact
I hope you’re all having a beautiful, restful festive period ✨ I’m currently tucked away in our little Highland home up in the very North West, and trying my best to go a little more inward and rest in the ways that actually serve me. Pai
‘You could feel it before you saw it. It was a deeper kind of sensing- a change in the wind, in the quality of the birds calling overhead. It was already in motion. The clouds darkened their terrific forms, as if they themselves were running fo
Which one calls to you? 🤍 A little reflection paired with some mini watercolours.

Inspired by the wonderful @morganharpernichols who creates some really beautiful ‘choose your own’ posts. 

All of the watercolours above are available fr
‘To apprehend things, walking on a hill, seeing the light change, being aware, using the whole of one’s body to instruct the spirit – yes, that is a secret life one has and knows others have. But to be able to share it, and thro&rsq
‘I found a sense of home hidden beneath the dying bracken. I heard it in the burn that runs down to the loch, smelled it in the rich wet peat, tasted it in the mist-threaded air. Now I walk with it, quietly by my side, on soft winter days.&rsqu
‘Rain on me. Strike me with fire. I feel like lightning in slow motion. I am one fathom deep and contain the unknown. I am vibrating at a frequency invisible to man and I’m ready to be brave.’ Amy Liptrot, The Outrun.

The second pa
There’s just something about winter light that I’ve always found a little magic. A quietness, that feels like permission to settle and be still, just for a little while. 

Hush, oil on paper, available mounted on my website shop now. Link
Some beautiful photos of a purchase a month or so back, sent all the way across the world to Australia for Emma 🤍

Having my work in galleries and exhibitions is wonderful, but there is no greater privilege than having my work in your spaces and hom
Another of the most recent pieces on paper, available on my website now. 🤍 Capturing the light in the darkest of spaces. 

Alight, original oil on paper, available mounted on high quality white mount-board and backing.

emwhitefordart@outlook.com