Emily Thompson

As an American artist living in Cork, Emily Thompson has focused her art on exploring and connecting with the land she now calls home. She employs a variety of materials in order explore landscape within a two-dimensional space. She is inspired by the textures of the unique Irish landscape and finds solace and peace in the creation of these landscapes. She is intrigued by the hopeful and peaceful feel of both the mountains and the sea and feels that her relationship to the natural world is central to her art practice. She creates ‘woolen paintings’ using the techniques of needle, or wet felting. These creations are then pushed further by ‘drawing’ using her sewing machine or needle and thread.