Description
‘The Hanging Garden’ by Emma Black
Artist: Emma Black
Title: ‘The Hanging Garden’
Medium: Oil on cradled wood
Dimensions: 14″ x 11″
Framing: Unframed – Ready to hang
Year of Creation: 2021
About the Artwork:
“THE HANGING GARDEN is a piece about love and mortality; suspended in the vague shape of a heart. The figure is splitting apart, the faces representing the atriums and ventricles, and the flowers sprouting out in place of the veins and arteries creating a macabre garden. With the babies breath symbolising new life and the skulls the briefness of it, the new heart crafted aims to show both the strength and fragility of life.” – Emma Black
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Emma Black is a UK based artist. She graduated in 2012 from the University of Westminster with a First Class honours degree in Illustration, and in 2016 from the Cambridge School of Art with a MA in Fine Art. The unknown, whether an aspect of the physical world or a limitation of the human mind, is the main starting point for her work. Using mainly traditional media and autobiographical themes, her practice explores notions of The Uncanny, human subconscious and our relationship to death and the natural world.