About Emelia
Emelia is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice moves between interiors, gardens and art.
Raised in a family of artists, engineers and scientists, she grew up in the countryside surrounded by art, making and the continual renovation of her family home. This shaped a deeply artistic and hands-on approach to design, and a belief that the spaces around us should encourage curiosity, creativity and a closer relationship with nature.
Storytelling is central to Emelia’s work. Through colour, pattern and recurring symbols, she creates a visual language inspired by the people, places and moments connected to a project. This approach moves freely between her artwork and her designs for interiors and gardens, allowing each space to develop its own identity and narrative.
SCIENCE
Alongside her creative practice, Emelia has a PhD from the Organic Geochemistry Unit at University of Bristol. Her research comprised of the design and testing of a sustainable material inspired by Terra Preta, the exceptionally fertile, carbon-rich soils of the Amazon, bringing together material design, soil science and ideas around carbon sequestration and environmental remediation. This scientific understanding of materials, soils and natural systems continues to inform the way she thinks about both art and landscape.
INTERIORS
Whilst completing her scientific studies, Emelia designed and delivered extensive residential renovations in London and Bristol, taking projects from initial concept through to construction and often working directly on the build herself. Her approach to interiors is similarly rooted in art, storytelling and making, with her flagship project on St Luke’s Crescent, Bristol becoming a full artistic tribute to her family’s artistic legacy.
MURALS AND ARTWORKS
Progression into art and mural painting was somewhat instinctive, following in the footsteps of a family of painters, sculptors, and ceramicists. Working predominantly in oil on board, Emelia creates abstract landscapes and portraits layered with personal symbols to form a visual language explore people, places, memories and ideas. Her painting also extends into interiors through large scale decorative murals and imagined landscapes, a practice inspired in part by the work of her grandfather and continuing a family tradition of craftsmanship and storytelling.
HORTICULTURE
Gardening became particularly important to Emelia after the loss of her father, offering a way to reconnect with the earth and the natural cycles of life. What began personally developed into years of professional horticultural experience, training and working in private gardens across London and Somerset. She later completed the Serge Hill Planting Design Masterclass, developing planting schemes using the perennial collection at the Plant Library and presenting her work to Tom Stuart-Smith and members of his team.
These threads, art, science, horticulture and making, now come together in a practice that treats spaces as more than something to decorate. Whether designing a garden or interior, painting a mural or creating an artwork, Emelia aims to make places that feel personal, playful and alive: spaces that engage people with art, craftsmanship and nature, and perhaps inspire them to create something themselves.
