Artist Statement Emma Digerud-White

 

Artist Statement: Emma Digerud-White
Visual Artist. Living and working in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Emma Digerud-White’s practice explores perception, emotion and sensory experience. Working from her lived experience as a neurodivergent woman, she is interested in the intensity with which emotions, relationships and environments are felt and understood.

Feelings become colour, movement and mark. Figures reveal their inner landscapes as they extend outward, connecting to one another and the spaces they inhabit. Love, devotion, desolation, clarity, confusion and confrontation recur throughout the work.

Her paintings are built through multiple layers of paint, beginning with loose gestures and intuitive marks before gradually forming areas of depth and definition. Colour is chosen instinctively and used boldly. For Digerud-White, colour is not decorative but vital — a way of making feeling visible and giving form to the sensory intensity of experience.

Video and photography often capture fleeting moments from everyday life. These fragments become starting points for paintings that move between the intimate and the universal, exploring perception, connection and the complexity of being human.

 

 

 

Image: Go Where You Feel Good, Solo Show, Circle Contemporary