Printmaking, collage and woven paper

you will find paper weavings, prints and collages for sale from a body of work entitled LEMONADE, a collaboration with artist Becky Street.

Emma Jane Royer is a visual artist who uses the practice and promise of making as a method to find tenderness in the imperfect texture of ordinary experience.

Printed, cut, woven and collaged, LEMONADE is collaboration with artist Becky Street, featuring works on paper that employ destruction, recreation and collaboration to make something sweet and punchy out of work that was previously castoff or set aside.

Working closely together, but without a specific vision of what we would produce, we chose to combine the visual language of each artist: Becky’s colorful and painterly monoprints that reference the comfort and delights of home; and, Emma’s graphic and textural relief prints that focus on the mass and texture of landscape. Woven and collaged together, the different languages balance moments of complement with those of contrast.

By weaving strips of prints together, we produced a series of grids that we then arranged into larger works. Visually, the pieces reference the logic and language of patchwork: bits and pieces that are collected from previous projects and pursuits, reconsidered to make something new and unplanned. By focusing on bold, tart yellows alongside the oranges, greens and pinks of citrus groves and sky blues we want to highlight the delight in using the collaborative process to transform established patterns and methods into something that is fresh and invigorating.

We started this body of work in February 2021. Having spent nearly a year in various states of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, amidst a global crisis, national unrest and yet so much isolation, we were propelled to find ways to make the most out what we had on hand; to discover safe and invigorating ways to work together; and, to create moments of sweetness amidst a bitter and challenging landscape.

Emma is headed to northern Norway this summer for an artist residency on the island of Arnøya. She’ll be working on a series of cyanotype exposures on cloth from which she will create a series of abstract quilts.

Emma Jane Royer is a visual artist known for her work in textiles and paper. She has been honored with an Artist Trust GAP Award, 4Culture Individual Artist Project Awards, and the Dana and Tori Ann Rust Memorial Fellowship from the Museum of Northwest Art. Emma was an Artist-In-Residence at the Jentel Foundation in Sheridan, Wyoming and the recipient of the Clowes Foundation Fellowship for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Emma has exhibited at numerous institutions including the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, the Bellevue Art Museum and Gallery4Culture in Seattle, WA. Her artwork is included in private and public collections including University of New Mexico Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections Library and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is currently a member of SHIFT Gallery in Seattle, WA.