Emma Holmes/ Book Edition

Emma Holmes is a multidisciplinary painter working across oils, gouache, watercolour, and acrylic. Inspired by the world around her, Holmes explores the idea of place through cultural artefacts, architecture, and the natural landscape. Alongside a career in set design and art departments, the practice is shaped by storytelling, atmosphere, and world-building, with careful attention given to colour, composition, and detail. By translating real environments into imagined spaces, Holmes creates paintings that celebrate both the beauty of the existing world and the possibilities of new ones.