'Emma Cameron's paintings each seem to resurrect some distant and forgotten fragment of childhood imagination. In her pictures a narrative is being played out, although we don't know exactly what the story is. It is however a scene the viewer has stumbled upon by chance, as a witness to a passing moment which belongs to some larger play.

 

'An intense use of pure colour and scrubbed brushwork lend a sense of joy to the images, while the lines used to describe the figures fix the pictures down just enough to stop them floating away. The figures in Cameron's work inhabit a self-contained realm which is untroubled by the concerns of the adult world, yet their outward gaze acknowledges its existence.'

 

Robert Priseman, artist, 2006

To see work by Robert Priseman, visit www.robertpriseman.com

 

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