Bio/ Artist Statement
About the Artist/ Artist Statement
About Ember Livingston Emmons:
Ember Livingston Emmons is a visual artist living on Lingít Aaní in Southeast Alaska. She has spent most of her life immersed in the wild beauty of this region, including some of its most remote and rugged areas. Ember has also lived and studied in Washington, Oregon, and California, and she deeply enjoys traveling—especially to learn about people and how they live in different parts of the world.
Her life path has been as varied and textured as her art. She has worked as a cook in remote fishing lodges, owned a small-town coffee shop, and captained a wooden hand-troller, commercially fishing for wild salmon. No matter the setting, creativity has always been a constant in her life—expressed through many mediums and life experiences.
In 2017, when a close family member was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Ember became a fierce advocate and support system. This experience deepened her passion for mental health advocacy, particularly around de-stigmatizing mental illness and helping others live full, meaningful lives alongside their challenges.
Today, Ember paints full-time from Sitka, sharing life with her husband, son, dog, cat and a collection of houseplants. A lifelong meditator, she finds deep peace in both meditation and painting—practices that often blend into one another. Through expressive brushwork and a love of pattern and texture, she channels both her joy and reflection onto the canvas.
She is a graduate of the Milan Art Institute’s Mastery Program and is a lifelong learner.
Artist Statement:
I am always exploring.
My work is rooted in curiosity and a deep fascination with the structures—both seen and unseen—that shape our world. I’m drawn to infrastructure in all its forms, from the engineered geometry of human-built environments to the quiet architecture of moss, bark, and decay. Whether natural or manmade, I see these systems as deeply interconnected. Still, we often separate them—perhaps because human-made forms are so often destructive. But they, too, emerge from nature, from us.
I find inspiration in textures and patterns that are easily overlooked: water stains on concrete, decomposing cardboard, the way rust spreads across metal, the shifting shadow of leaves. These quiet details catch my eye and settle into my work. I explore the tension between wildness and order, growth and collapse, beauty and disregard.
Color is central to how I express this world. I use it boldly and instinctively, refusing to tone it down. Color, to me, is a kind of honesty—it allows emotion and instinct to show up unfiltered on the canvas.
At the heart of my practice is a belief in radical self-esteem and the pursuit of authenticity, intuition, and creative freedom.Throughout my life, I have used art as a voice when words have failed me. Painting is my meditation, my grounding force, and my way of seeing—and shaping—the world.
Thank you for joining me here.
- Love,
Ember Livingston Emmons
Contact me at:
ember@greenwitchgallery.com
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