Emma Magenta

Emma Magenta is an Australian artist, writer and filmmaker and began drawing and writing her observations of the inner and outer worlds down on paper book bags and pinning them to the wall at Berkelouw Books, Paddington where she worked for 10 years. She was offered an international book deal at the front desk and has illustrated, written and published 7 books, and an award winning animation and live action film. Emma is inherently inspired by nature, mythology and the world view of the child and primarily draws with her opposite hand to bypass the left brain, to achieve a naive style. Moving into painting is a deeper exploration into the power of symbolism, colour and text to evoke simultaneously, the feeling body and the mind of the viewer around matters of consciousness, spirit, nature and memory.