Emily Payton
about
Emily Payton read English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford and at York University, where she pursued painting and sculpture alongside academic work.
Her work is marked by an obsession with detail and intricacy. Emily explains this as
'a desire to get as close as possible to the objects I describe, so as to fully inhabit them
'.
Literature informs much of her work: she has crafted into a tapestry the lines of a poem by Seamus
Heaney, Ted Hughes' animal poems are the germs for some of her sketches, and a series of prints
began life as a visual response to Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.
Future projects include illustrations and texts for several children's picture books and a range of bird sculptures.