Emma Page is a self-taught artist, inspired by animals and the natural world. She grew up on a farm and developed an interest in wildlife from an early age. Emma enjoyed expressing her love of nature through sketching and painting out in the field. To her delight this hobby has developed into a full-time career in art.
Emma studied Zoology at Nottingham University, which gave her further insight into the behaviour and anatomy of animals. She now uses this knowledge to enhance her skills as an animal artist, being able to accurately depict their form as well as capturing their true character.

Photo: Emma and her cousins

Emma’s family-run farm strives to protect wildlife through a number of conservation projects that create and sustain varied habitats. It is this, along with her love of the natural world, that has instigated in her a keen interest in conservation. 1998 saw Emma’s first experience in practical conservation when she swapped her comfortable lifestyle for a number of weeks living in a hammock in the depths of the Central American rainforests. Along with a group of volunteers she helped in the construction of a centre to be used for research and as a base from which illegal poaching can be controlled. In 2003 she spent six months working as an intern for the World Land Trust (WLT) (www.worldlandtrust.org), a UK based charity that funds the acquisition of habitats that are under threat. Her internship culminated in a three week trip to the coastal steppes of Patagonia, in Argentina, where she helped Fundacion Patagonia Natural, the WLT’s partner organization in that part of the world. Emma’s most recent trip took her to Costa Rica where she worked at a breeding and refuge centre for Macaws, called Amigos de las Aves (www.hatchedtoflyfree.org).
With her environmental background and artistic ability Emma hopes to pursue a career in art that will raise funds and awareness of conservation issues through her paintings.

Emma’s enjoyment of the outdoors frequently leads to camping trips, with a sketch pad in hand of course! Here she is among her cousins on the Dorset coast. A desire to travel runs in the family and two of her cousins pictured here are currently circumnavigating the globe by bicycle for the charity Practical Action (www.practicalaction.org), a feat that will take them three years to achieve. See their web-site www.freewheelseast.co.uk for further information.

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