To Everything There Is A Season: Emma Haworth

Multiple-award-winning artist, Emma Haworth, paints the shared outdoors, from urban parks and squares to beaches, countryside and woods. Haworth captures moments where nature collides with everyday human activity - picnics, dog walks, strolls, hikes, swims –  with the precision of Bruegel’s The Fall of Icarus, a picture immortalised in W.H. Auden’s poem Musee des Beaux Arts.

The people who inhabit Haworth’s scenes are reminiscent of L.S. Lowry’s figures, but what makes them different and individually memorable is that every tiny detail is lovingly, accurately depicted – the logo on a T-shirt, the flash on a trainer, the pattern on a skirt, the bobble on a woolly hat. 

These busy little figures are set against the eternal, majestic backdrop of ever-shifting seasons, capturing that sense of T.S. Eliot’s ‘still point of the turning world’. This tension between flux and stillness, the familiar and the mystical, gives Haworth’s paintings their exceptionally joyful beauty which continues to attract collectors and a devoted following.