Celestial, otherworldly and intensely intimate, Afterglow uses light to explore our relationship with personal and universal energy.
This pulsing collection of large scale paintings explores the complexity of the human mind through an electric entanglement of oil paint and energy, enticing us to enter a supernatural negative space to navigate our own neural pathways. Spiralling across each of the paintings is a seemingly chaotic entanglement of neon wires. Allegorising not only the complexity of our thoughts but the digital information we receive and process on a daily basis, these bursts of light illuminate the female subjects whilst deepening the darkness they inhabit. The scale is deliberately larger than life to impose and make us confront the feelings of the women.
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Umbriel. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
…And When The Stars Threw Down Their Spears. 100x120cm, Oil on Canvas
Pasilda. 100x120cm Oil on Canvas
Selene. 100x150cm, Oil on Canvas (Diptych with Eneles)
Arale. 100x150cm, Oil on Canvas (Diptych with Elara)
“Night is the time for lovers and adventures: a time for magic. It’s a time to sleep and dream and recharge. Sometimes it’s not what we see, it’s what we don’t see.” – Emma-Leone Palmer
Paradise. 100x150cm Oil on Canvas
VoodooRay 100x120cm Oil on Canvas
Cyllene. 170x121cm, Oil on Canvas.
Io. 80x80cm, Oil on Canvas.
“In the dark, the magic comes alive.” – Emma-Leone Palmer
Dione. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
“The light is an allegory for connection and energy. It’s representing your thoughts, feelings and confusions…what you’re emitting and also what you’re receiving.” – Emma-Leone
Galatea. 171x120cm Oil on Canvas.
Hyperion. 170x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Desdemona. 170x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
“Some are created in times of desperation and feeling lost, some with a rippling sensuality, some whilst I dance with music and fun pulsing in my veins.” – Emma-Leone Palmer
Sinope. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
“It’s all about how light touches the surface of the skin, the sensation, the intimacy of those points of connection.” – Emma-Leone Palmer
Thalassa. 151x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Kalyke. 100x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Pasiphae. 100x150cm, Oil on Canvas
Jubel. 100x120cm Oil on Canvas
Eneles. 100x150cm, Oil on Canvas (Diptych with Selene)
Elara. 100x150cm, Oil on Canvas (Diptych with Arale)
Deimos. 171x120c,m Oil on Canvas.
'Afterglow is a body of some of the most exciting and energising work in oils I’ve seen since my early days at Art School in the 1490s.
Emma has absolutely captured the NOW but done it with the flawless technique of a Clacissist'
-Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen
Titan. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
“Metaphysical and spiritual patterns are shifted: we are sitting, thinking, reflecting, feeling wild – alone yet united. Time stretches and bends, and we twist and turn trying to make sense of our own space.” – Emma-Leone Palmer
Adrastea. 171x121cm, Oil on Canvas.
“Fate Whispers to the Warrior, ‘You can not withstand the storm.’
The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the Storm .” – Unknown
Dysnomia. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Helike. 171x120cm Oil on Canvas.
Methone. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Naiad. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Themisto. 171x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Amalthea. 170x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
Aoede. 120x100cm, Oil on Canvas.
“The idea is that it’s exposing a moment of yourself. It’s bigger than you, it’s celestial, it’s saying: “Here I am, this is me.”” – Emma Leone Palmer
HarSpa-Air. 100x120cm, Oil on Canvas.
“When you’re in the dark, it’s like a warm blanket: you feel safe, but also it feels a little bit dangerous, a little bit naughty.” – Emma-Leone Palmer
Caitlin commission. 100x100cm. Oil on Canvas
Callisto. 170x250cm. Original, Oil on Canvas.
Cressida. 120x170cm, Oil on Canvas.
Eupheme. 150x100c, Oil on Canvas.
Portia/Lotus. 150x100cm, Oil on Canvas
HarSpa-Air. 170x120cm, Oil on Canvas.