Flora Chromatica — Emilia Symis

8 - 12 August 2023

Open daily: 10:30am - 5pm (closed Sundays)

Private View - 8 August 2023, 6 — 8pm

 A bold spectrum of botanical paintings by Emilia Symis

Over the past few years, I have been exploring the contrast between natural and artificial beauty using flowers as my subject. By adorning already beautiful and pure objects, I am able to create a different kind of beauty that is perplexing and garish. I aim to intrigue the viewer with alluring texture and colour, and then make them question the true beauty behind such spoiled imagery. Most of my paintings are playful and cheerful, however some of my paintings also have undertones of destructive environmental issues that humans are inflicting upon nature, thus ruining the natural beauty of our planet. Flora Chromatica will feature a captivating rainbow of these paintings, ranging from singed bird of paradise flowers to chocolate covered roses. 

 Bio and exhibition history:

In 2019, I graduated from Norwich University of the Arts with a BA(Hons) degree in Fine Art, in the same year I was fortunate enough to make the final of the John Ruskin Prize and I was awarded the winner of the Bishop’s Art Prize. Since graduating, I have exhibited in London and across the country and developed a business as an artist.

Awards: 

Bishops Art Prize winner 2019

John Ruskin Prize finalist 2019

Sworders Art prize runner-up 2020

Solo:

A Feast for the Senses, The Corn Hall, Diss, 2020

Vivid Memories, Anteros, Norwich, 2021

Group:

Bishops Art Prize, Streams in the Desert, Norwich Cathedral, 2019

John Ruskin Prize: Agent's of Change, Holden Gallery, Manchester, 2019

Recent Graduate Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, 2020

Sir John Hurt Prize & Sworders Art Prize, Holt, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Art in Mind & Contemporary Painting, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, 2022

Fauna & Flora, Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth, 2022