Emma Llewelyn - Portrait and Wildlife Artist 3.18

Emma Llewelyn is an Australian artist specialising in graphite and soft pastel portraits of wildlife and people. She started drawing with graphite at a young age, taking up soft pastels in 2006. She sold her first drawing in 2005, and sales and portrait commissions have boomed since. In 2011 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong.

She had her first group exhibition in 2006 at the Mitchell School of Arts, and since then has exhibited a number of times, including the Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, the Scone Arts and Crafts Society Exhibition, the McCully's Gap Fundraising Exhibition and the UOW Graduates ‘Catch; No Two Alike’ exhibition. She has received several awards, including placing in the Murrurrundi Art Prize and the Bernadette O'Reilly Scholarship for Young Artists Under 25, and was commissioned for her first book cover in 2012.
Her work now hangs in private collections and commercial buildings across the country.

Visit her website at www.emmallewelynart.com for more information.