The Artistic Endevours of Emma-Grace

this portfolio consists of some of their art and music throughout the years

Emma-Grace

Introduction

Based in Vancouver, BC, Emma-Grace is a passionate contemporary artist and musician known for creating deeply raw, vulnerable work across multiple disciplines. Operating under the creative banner Art-Awaits, Emma-Grace experiments with music and mixed-media art to explore the landscapes of human emotion. A cornerstone of their creative practice is their lived experience with Bipolar Disorder, which fuels a deeply honest, personal, and vulnerable approach to storytelling and visual art.

Upcoming Original Releases:

Single:

'Looking Through the Night'

Album:

'Mania Has Words'

Single:

'They Told Me I Was Wrong'

Both singles available now for streaming exclusively on art-awaits.ca music page.

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Photo by Portland Oregon Photographer Shawnalee
shawnaleestudios.com

EG's Favourites:

Bright Series:
4 Painting Series

Finding Brightness

This series signifies moving forward and looking for beauty and comfort. Created with acrylic paint using multiple techniques, each painting, focussed on the experience of repetition through a new lens. Worked into the pieces is a connection of colour and movement through the paintings.

Receipt Series:
On-Going Painting Series

An Experiment of Techniques

This large painting demonstrates the techniques EG has become familiar with over the years, with the addition of the new experiment of using receipt paper for texture.

Mixed Days - Receipt Series

This painting was created over a couple of days. EG used this canvas to spread extra paint to clean the brush for other work. The layers built up. The receipt texture was added after the initial base paintings then the painting was finished with gloved hands and drips. Paintings 2-4 were experimental and kinesthetic, and more about the process of letting go of frustration than having a finished peice.

Tumultuous Contemplation:
2 Painting Series

Tumultuous Contemplation 36"x36"

This painting felt comforting to create despite the ominous colour scheme. While struggling with dark emotions, something about creating a piece that represents it helped EG find some comfort. This is a series created late at night due to insomnia and ptsd flash backs. This is one of the biggest canvases EG has used. The process helped EG work through their emotions, leading to rest.

Silent Pain:
3 Painting Series

Unable to Speak - Silent Pain

Floating in the vastness a silent mouth feeling a constant sensation that can't be changed. This series of work represents the times at which chronic pain isn't known and is not shared. But is vividly experienced.

Saturated Feelings:
3 Painting Series

Wash Away - Saturated Feelings

Uniquely to this piece the canvas started out slightly wet which led to paint dripping and flowing across the canvas. This series of paintings was created under intense stress as a method of distraction and free expression.