Hello, I’m Emma. I walk, draw, photograph, and craft silver pieces inspired by land, stories, and devotion.
My work is rooted in pilgrimage and walking meditation, exploring how we connect to landscape, memory, and ritual.
ejdstudio is my creative practice, rooted in pilgrimage, walking meditation, and connection to the land.
Through documenting sites of devotion - past and present - my photography explores how landscape shapes identity, memory, and belonging.
Journeying forms the foundation of my work. Undertaking long walks across ancient paths, coastlines, and spiritual sites, I approach movement as both method and ritual. These contemporary pilgrimages create durational encounters with place, foregrounding attention, embodiment, and quiet observation.
Landscape as liminal space
I am drawn to liminal spaces - thresholds, edges, and landscapes shaped by folklore, rites of passage, and collective memory.
Alongside photography, I work with silver to create pieces for meaningful celebrations - births, rites of passage, and acts of connection to land and memory. Crafting is slow and deliberate, a form of meditation, and supports my broader practice.
“I love how you capture the softness of the landscape. We are often showing the land in such dramatic ways, but you remind us of its quietness…just gently ‘being’”.
- Artist & friend, Sue Freestone