Sarah Emmens is a self taught fine artist from Witham, Essex in the U.K
She works in graphite, coloured pencil, pastels, oils and acrylic, trying to capture as much detail as She can. Sarah likes to paint all animals, people, Landscapes and Seascapes and sometimes combines subjects for her original artworks. She works from reference photos and sometimes more than one reference to create original pieces. All the references Sarah uses are used with permission from friends, family and fellow artists.
Artist’s statement
Capturing the details and the beauty is what I strive for in my work. If I see a beautiful sky, seascape or landscape I want to paint it and if I see a beautiful portrait I want to draw it. Nothing is more exciting than to figure out how I’m going to get the likeness and details in a piece and to actually see it come together. I just want people to feel the beauty in my art whatever the subject.
My grandad was an artist, so from an early age I grew up with the smell of turps and paint. It wasn’t until the end of 2012 that I decided to teach myself to draw, sadly my grandad had passed away in 2011 so never saw my artwork. I started off with graphite pencils and by July 2013 I decided to try coloured pencils. I never thought I would be able to achieve a likeness but really surprised myself and I soon started using pastels as well and was drawing both people and animals.
In 2016 I won a prize at a local art exhibition and I have been published twice in 2016 and 2023 in Ann Kullbergs “ Hidden treasures” art books.
As of 2025 I now work in graphite, coloured pencil, pastels, acrylic and oil paints. I create a range of artwork from my own original pieces to landscapes, seascapes, wildlife, pet and human portraits. As a creative person I don’t want to be limited to using one or two mediums or concentrating on one or two subjects, as I enjoy creating different subjects and sometimes I like to combine more than one subject in a piece of artwork.
I create original pieces, prints and cards of my work and you can see these in my shop section of this website.
If you are interested in a pet portrait or wildlife commission then please visit my portrait website. https://essexportraitartist.weebly.com/
I appreciate you taking the time to look at my website and artwork, thank you.
