Emma Lou Martin
Emma Lou Martin is a person who devotes herself to enriching the art community
of Richmond, VA. She was the moving force in establishing the
Uptown Gallery as its founding director in 1992. She is passionate
about the arts, and her great joy has been passing that on to others whether
as a museum docent, workshop painting teacher, art consultant, and
exhibitor, or creating �art adventures� for fellow artists.
Majoring in fine arts at Randolph-Macon Woman�s College and
graduating from the College of William and Mary, Emma Lou has been
influenced by world travels and continued studies with nationally
recognized master painters such as Wolf Kahn, Sondra Freckelton,
Stephen Quiller, Pat Dews, Robert Wade, Carrie Brown Barnes,
Barbara Theilen Preston, and Tom Lynch.
Emma Lou, a signature member of the Virginia Watercolor Society,
has won awards in all media that she has explored: Pastel, print
making, collage, oil, and watercolor. She has had numerous solo
shows in venues such as the Science Museum of VA, Richmond
Public Library, VA Senate Office Building, Westminster Canterbury, VA
Eye Institute, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, VCU Medical Center
Hospital, and the Petersburg Area Art League. Emma Lou has
exhibited in national shows including Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center,
NYC, National EAA Aviation Foundation Show, Icarus International,
Blue Ridge Art Center, SC, and Montpelier Center for the Arts, as well
as in Southern, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic Watercolor Exhibitions.
She has directed and taught annual adult painting workshops and has
directed Children�s Art Camp at Shrine Mont, Orkney Springs, VA. She
conducts monthly critique sessions for artists. She has taught classes
in various media at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Bay School for
the Arts, Uptown Gallery, University of Richmond Woman�s Resource
Center, and internationally, has led workshops in Southern France
and Germany.
Emma Lou Martin�s work can be found in numerous corporate
collections including Media General, UVA Hospital, E.R. Carpenter
Corp., Birdsong Peanut Corp., Philip Morris, Inc. and private
collections internationally.
�My many interests
ranging from travel, art
history to current
events, to mans�
achievements, and
especially the love of
the natural world
permeate my work.
I continually work to
combine beauty of
surface, richness of
color, and excellence of
technique with an
original interpretation
of realism.�
Southern Magnolia
(Watercolor, $1200)
Nature�s Textures
(9" x 11� Collage, $300)
insects, twigs, handmade papers, found objects
A Few Necessities I
(11" x 11� Collage, $395)
computer parts, found objects and papers
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