Through her artwork, Emily Robinson is fascinated with capturing people and their lives. She strives to capture who the people are, their emotions, and how they relate with other people; not just to impose her own feelings through her work. She enjoys the variety of life experiences that her models have encountered and how these have shaped them inside and out. Emily is working on various projects in her art, and explores more life experiences and new subjects. What interests her most is pregnancy (creation) with the many intellectual, emotional and physical changes that occur. She wonders what people learn from such an experience. Her other important subject is her heritage. She’s been painting from old family photographs and discovering where she’s from, who she’s from and trying to imagine where she’s heading. She says it's very thought-provoking to see what their lives were like and who they were. She feels it's very important for these people not to be forgotten.
She resurrects their characters by creating art in their honor, interpreting them in her own way. Beyond beautiful pigments, line, and light, Emily says there’s so much to think of during the creation of a piece of art. Her relationship with the model influences the manner in which she proceeds. She asks herself many questions like who is she painting? What position do they take in life? Is it a lover, a friend, a model unknown to me, or a family member (or ancestor)? These questions change how she proceeds with her creation. Emily has attended several schools and centers for the development of her art career, including Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts and John Abbott College.
