Artist and geologist Emma Theresa Jude is exhibiting paintings and drawings of a multi-year project on the Scottish island of Skye as part of Orleans House Gallery's Emerging Artists' Programme, from April 14th-Jun 5th 2022 (private view April 22nd 6-8pm). The range of works, spanning from technical sketches in field notebooks to large-format abstract oils, combine precise observational drawing with emotional and responsive painting to form a deep, multi-layered picture of the landscape and what lies beneath. This description of the powerful forces shaping the island is informed by the artist's expertise; as a professional geologist she looks beyond the present-day to depict the landscape as a constantly changing entity, formed by its predecessors and containing within it all of its futures.

Emma Theresa Jude is a professional geologist and fellow of the Geological Society. She has been a practicing fine artist alongside her extensive international fieldwork for most of the last decade. The Skye project includes the results of her fieldwork on the island across 2019-2022 as well as an ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle, a thin spire of rock widely acknowledged as Britain's hardest peak to summit.

Orleans House Gallery's Emerging Artist Programme supports early career artists in the first ten years of development. 75 artists and collectives applied for the 2021-2022 programme, and Emma is the fourth and final artist selected. Work is for sale; prices range between £60 and £1200, and the exhibition will include a programme of free public drawing workshops led by the artist.