News and Exhibitions
Emma is having her first exhibition of paintings from 1990 to 2016 at Asia House in New Cavendish Street London W1 from May 23rd to June 5th 2016.
Profile
Emma Foale (neé Gordon) has been a portrait painter since 1985. She comes from an artistic background, with her mother being the renowned ceramicist Anne Gordon, and her father a botanical artist and art critic Alastair Aberdeen. Having studied at St. Martins, she went on to work in numerous areas of design, before returning to her passion of portrait painting.
All of her portraits are in oil, and at times she works with silver-gilded canvas with a layer of transparent colour on top. She aims to achieve an elegant, honest portrait that shows the sitter at their best without flattering them. With many years of design knowledge, Emma Foale also wishes to create a beautiful painting as well as a true likeness to the subject. Therefore composition and colour are of the utmost importance to her work. She works from a mixture of sittings and photographs, although where necessary she will use a combination of oil sketches and photographs.
She lives in Little Venice with her husband, the artist Johnny Dewe Mathews.
