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Emily Powell is a contemporary artist living in Brixham, Devon, with a studio on the edge of Dartmoor. She is a colourist and painter, often working on a large scale and she places great emphasis on connection and emotion. Colour, joy and freedom pour out of her work which ranges from evocative landscapes rooted in her hometown and the surrounding Devon coastline; surreal still lifes; powerful abstracts; grand florals; ethereal flying wildlife; and the journey of domestic life with her husband and young daughter.
Growing up in Liverpool, Powell went on to study at Norwich School Of Art for her formal training with a sabbatical at the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (2008-2011). In January-February 2023 Powell undertook a residency at Dartington Trust in Devon, culminating in a solo exhibition, Utopia, everyone’s invited. More recently she has transformed her Dartmoor barn studio into scenes from Arctic Norway with Arktisk, and opened it again for the Chapel of Hope.
Her studio is at Ullacombe Farm, on the Haytor Road at Bovey Tracey.
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- 16 Nov 2026, 10:00am Emily Powell’s Chapel of Hope
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