ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born and raised in Detroit, MI by a family of psychologists, Emily began their career of the observation and exploration of the Human experience and consciousness at an early age. After receiving a Bachelor’s of Arts in Film Production in Spring of 2014, Emily moved to Los Angeles, CA where they discovered high-end psychedelic art and performance painting on a documentary gig following three individuals traveling from LA to ATX for the Art Outside Music and Arts Festival the following October. Upon returning to LA, Emily put the camera aside in exchange for a paintbrush and never looked back.

In 2018 Emily traveled to the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors to study with Alex and Allyson Grey at their annual Visionary Painting Intensive workshop. During the workshop, Emily had a vision of a woman made of fire walking on coals. From this piece on, Emily’s artistic passion and goal has been to depict humanistic experiences through use of textures and elements in nature.

Currently pursing a Master’s degree in Art Therapy and recently certified in Ecotherapies, Emily’s ever-deepening perspective of the human experience continues to fuel the story-telling aspects of their artistic content. Creating scenes which highlight moments of learning, growth and evolved awareness to Universal Truth through humanoid characters made from Earthly elements, Emily strives to unify the realms of Spirit and Earth. Emily carefully chooses scenes in Nature whose archetypes align with those of the particular Human Experience which they are choosing to depict in order to reinforce the unity of these worlds.

Emily aspires to use both the action of creating and the finished products of their practice as an ever-evolving example of the profound healing and empowerment which artistic expression facilitates. The messages of the work all contain a variation of the message “we are all in this together,” and the message of each active, present-tense brush stroke is “you, too, have the power to create your reality.” Their over-arching goal as both artist and therapist is to help people help themselves.