Emma Webster
Nouveau Nocturne (above) & Flight Into Egypt (below)
2021 Oil on linen 60 x 108 inches
From the exhibit Ready the Laterns at Stems Gallery, Brussels
Emma Webster presents vibrant landscapes that combine painting’s rich history of illusion with frontier optics of virtual reality. In her humanless scenes, Webster signals that landscape—and the natural environment as a whole—merits respect. In these new species of space, nature has her own agency and power well beyond that granted by humankind.