Emma Turpin

In recent years Turpin has been exploring the notion of shelter in landscape. There are structures hidden in forests, and there are others that have almost become part of the landscape, with trees bursting from inside them. In other works we see nothing built or man-made but rather shelter suggested by an area of light emerging through a tangle of branches. Turpin uses these familiar natural forms to try and find a harmonious resolution between colour and form. 

London based British artist.

Education:

The Slade School of Art, 1985-1988
West Surrey College Of Art, 1982-1985
Hastings College of Art, 1980-1982

Exhibitions/One Man Shows & Group Shows:

2025
“The Flowers Gallery, ‘Small is Beautiful’ Cork St. London
The Rye Art Gallery, ‘Artist in Focus’ Rye, East Sussex
The Stone Space Gallery, Leytonstone, London
Rye Art Gallery, Rye, East Sussex, ‘Spring Has Sprung!’
The Fosse Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Stow on Wold

2024
Flowers Gallery, ‘Small is Beautiful’ Cork St. London
Rye Art Gallery, Rye, East Sussex, ‘Artist in Focus’
Bow Arts, ‘Camden Open Studios’ London
The Fosse Gallery, Stow on The Wold, ‘Summer Exhibition’
Rye Art Gallery, Rye East Sussex, ‘The Art of British Printmaking
The Fosse Gallery, Stow on The Wold, ‘Winter Exhibition’ 

2023
Flowers Gallery, ‘Small is Beautiful’, Cork St, London
Rye Art Gallery, Rye, East Sussex
Art on a Postcard, London

2022
Flowers Central, Small is Beautiful, Cork St. London
Fosse Gallery, Cheltenham
Rye Art Gallery, The Art of British Printmaking, Rye

2021
Flowers Central, Small is Beautiful, Cork St. London
Rye Art Gallery, 

2020
Flowers Central, Cork St. London
Rye Art Gallery

2019
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London

2018
Small is Beautiful Flowers Gallery London
JP Art Gallery, East Dulwich, London

2017
The Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames
The Stone Space Gallery, Leytonstone, London 

2015
The Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames, ‘Small paintings Exhibition

2013
The OpenSky Museum, Nantes, France

2012
Shop Mixed Show, London

2009
The Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames. ‘Small Paintings Exhibition.’

2008
New Brewery Arts. Cirencester. ‘A Winter’s Tale’ Portal Gallery Summer Exhibition, London
’35 Years of the Bohun Gallery’, Henley-on-Thames The Easton Rooms Summer Exhibition, Rye

2002 to 2008
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames

2006
Gallery 12, London NW3

2001
The Portal Gallery (then at Dover Street W1)

1998
The Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames

1996
Portal Gallery, Bremen, Germany. ‘Distaff Power’
The Easton Rooms Gallery, East Sussex
‘Musicians’, Portal Gallery, London
‘Artists in Spain’ Stormount Gallery, East Sussex
‘Alternative Arts’ Baker Street, London
‘Idiosyncratic British Art’ Brewery Arts Gallery, Cirencester, Glos.

1995
‘Childhood Remembered’ The Easton Rooms Gallery, East Sussex

1994
Portal Gallery, London
‘Portal Painters’, Palais Royal, Paris, France ‘Angels’, Terifa Gallery, Spain
Portal Gallery, Bremen, Germany
The Royal Commission, Geneva
The Sassoon Gallery, Folkstone, Kent

1993
Rye Society of Artists, Summer Exhibition The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey Easton Rooms Gallery, Rye

1992
Portal, Gallery, London

1990
Print to Print Touring Exhibition, Sunderland Victoria Gallery, Hastings
The Wax Kiln Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
The Corner House, Manchester