Emma Carlisle Sketchbook

Emma Carlisle is an artist and lecturer, based in Plymouth, UK. Her work primarily focuses on the landscape she encounters in Devon and Cornwall, a subject that allows her to revel in colour and expressive marks in pencil, watercolour, gouache and acrylic. Her dedication to her sketchbook started out as a personal project of drawing on location in an attempt to get back in touch with drawing and the natural landscape. She uses a mixture of materials including gouache, coloured pencils, brush pens and crayons to create a variety of textures. I really enjoy her use of colour and the burst of abstract, dynamic marks which often becomes the land on which a small cottage or tree sits upon.