Laying out prints collected from the printers prior to signing 2024

All the works from my latest exhibition are currently available to purchase as prints. 

All signed archival giclée prints are produced on high quality paper up to an edition of 30. The original photograph is taken by Dickon Whitehead (@dickonwhitehead), a professional fine art photographer who also makes the prints.

How to Order

All you have to do is email me –
emmastroude@gmail.com
– with the title of your chosen image and paper size (A2/A3/A4) by December 1st at the latest if you wish to receive it by post before Christmas and by December 10th for anyone able to collect here in Sligo. Once I have your print packed and ready to go, I send you a photo for you to verify and you can pay then by Revolut or Paypal.

A2 €220 inc. P&P
A3 €160 inc. P&P
A4 €110 inc. P&P

Choose from the images of my paintings below!

The Wolf At My Heels. Snap. Snap. Oil on canvas, 120cm x 100cm, 2024

Roll The Dice (Diptych), Oil on canvas, each panel 100cm x 100cm, 2024

Blind Faith, Oil on canvas, 120cm x 100cm, 2024

An Acorn Or The Sky, Oil on canvas, 120cm x 140cm, 2024

Retreat, Oil on canvas 70cm x 50cm, 2024

Emma Stroude, In Ribbons, Oil on canvas, 150cm x 100cm, 2024

A Jar. A Tower. A Body. Oil on canvas, 150cm x 100cm, 2024

Dortha, Oil on canvas, 100cm x 150cm, 2023

A Meeting Of Truths, Oil on canvas, 120cm x 120cm, 2023

Remember to request a print just send the Title and Paper Size (A2/A3/A4) to –
emmastroude@gmail.com
– and you can pay by Revolut or Paypal when the print is ready to send.

Thank you for your interest in my work.

A3 signed print of A Jar. A Tower. A Body. 2024

Please join us at Custom House Studios & Gallery on Thursday 26th September at 6pm at the launch of my solo exhibition Mid-Air & Middle Ground. Dr Tamsin Cavaliero (Dept. Social Sciences, ATU) who guided my research for this body of work will be opening the show and new works will be revealed on the night!

I will be doing an artist’s talk in the gallery space on Saturday 12th October, all welcome!

Mid-air: a place of movement, release and expansion; a place of weight and weightlessness; a place without connection and boundary; a place of joy and fear, chaos and focus; a place of possibility.

Middle ground: a place of vulnerability and bravery; a place of reconciliation; a place of resolution; a place of compromise and acceptance; a place from where we may find a way forward; a place of potential.

Dortha, Oil on canvas, 100cm x 150cm, 2023

My figurative works explore themes of performance, embodiment and our ability to embrace uncertainty. They invite the viewer to consider the experience of inhabiting their own bodies not just in a physical way but also in an emotional and cerebral way.
My compositions are carefully selected moments of performance chosen for their connection to my own personal experiences and feelings of empathy towards the roles played by the figures. The investigative process of rendering them in paint imbues each piece with my own story but in extension to this, these works reach towards the viewer and seek empathy for a shared human experience.

A Jar. A Tower. A Body. Oil on canvas, 150cm x 100cm, 2024

I am interested in our ability to cope with adverse situations and find the inner strength to continue despite discomfort, fear or threat. The figures that inhabit my works find themselves caught in positions that are difficult to maintain, learning to cope and find a way to endure or even find comfort in their discomfort. The element of performance is important here. We may experience degrees of a wide range of emotions through art while safely remaining the viewer. These emotional experiences link with empathy and may lead us to consider our own stories and reflect on our capacity for resilience.

With sincere thanks to The Arts Council, Dr. Tamsin Cavaliero, David Smith and performers Angelique Ross, Michelle Thoburn and Emmen Jude Donnelly who all played key roles in the development of this body of works. Special thanks to all at Custom House Studios & Gallery.

Hamilton Gallery, Sligo and Spanish Armada Ireland are hosting the first international Spanish Armada inspired visual art exhibition featuring artists from Spain, Norway, the UK and Ireland. Aideen Connolly, Medbh Gillard, Martina Hamilton, Lisa Gingles, Unni Mona Kristoffersen, Xavi Muñoz and Emma Stroude, along with poets Malcolm Hamilton, Winifred McNulty and Seamus Connolly, have been exchanging ideas and creating work reflecting the connections between their countries through the Armada narrative.

March Wreath – In Remembrance Of The Armada At Streedagh, oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm, 2024

My work in relation to the tragedy surrounding the Spanish Armada wrecks considers the longevity of remembrance through painting. Inspired by a heritage festival event where a wreath is laid at the site of the wrecks, I am creating a new series of works in the tradition of memento mori that reflect the circle of life, the passing of time, the return to nature and the realisation that the loss of life and the horrific events and acts that took place will be forever a part of the shoreline on Streedagh Beach.

April Wreath – In remembrance Of The Armada At Streedagh, oil on canvas 30cm x 40cm, 2024

A wreath is a symbol of loss and remembrance. Considering the lives lost at Streedagh in 1588, each month I make a wreath using the plants and trees found in Sligo and the wildflowers in bloom at that time. I take the wreath to Streedagh beach to the site of the Armada wrecks and launch it into the ocean. I spend time photographing the wreath in the water, its struggle to survive the turbulence and endure the rhythmical surge of the waves and the toll the water and the wind take on its beauty as it makes its way out to sea. I have made paintings of each wreath’s effort to endure the shallows at Streedagh drawing from memory and my photographic source material.

May Wreath – In remembrance Of The Aramad At Streedagh, oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm 2024

The nature of the act of making each wreath inland and bringing it to the coast has evoked thoughts of being uprooted and brought to an alien place where challenge and adversity lay waiting. Each soldier, sailor, priest or servant on those boats had a previous history, a life in a place they called home. Their ill-fated voyage left them fighting for their lives against the relentless attack of the ocean or the hostility that awaited them on the shore. My abstracted paintings of the wreaths in the water are intended to be a gentle tribute to these people, a reminder of their plight and loss, the short beauty and fierce challenges of their existence and that despite the movement of the tides and the passing of time their presence and the memory of them will persist on Streedagh Beach.

June Wreath – In Remembrance of The Armada at Streedagh, oil on canvas, 40cm x 30cm 2024

July Wreath – In Remembrance Of The Armada At Streedagh, oil on canvas 30cm x 40cm, 2024

See the entire exhibition and purchase works here Tide And Ties at Hamilton Gallery 2024

Find out more about Remembering The Armada Festival here Spanish Armada Ireland

A Jar. A Tower. A Body. exhibited with Singing The Minstrel Boy by Jack B. Yeats in The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo 2024

The Sligo Wave, curated by Emer McGarry, invites audiences to explore the development of painting in Sligo from Jack B Yeats to the modern day.

Works by Patrick Hall and Jack B yeats in The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo 2024

Artists involved are:
@artist_tinka_bechert
@danielchesterartist
Patrick Collins
Barrie Cooke
@patriciadoherty.visualartist
Patrick Hall
@ronniehughesartist
@hazelmccrann
Seán McSweeney
@nickmiller_studio
@cafoleary
@andyparsonsart
@emmastroude
@cleaelisa
@lorna_watkins
Jack B Yeats

Works by Ronnie Hughes and Ticka Bechert in The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo 2024

Work by Patrick Hall in The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo 2024

Works by Cormac O’Leary and Sean McSweeney in The Sligo Wave , Slig 2024

The exhibition  shows a rich variety of works spanning the last 100 years. Each room in the gallery holds a different energy and atmosphere and the viewer finds themselves buzzing with the zest of the abstract works and then brought gently down to earth, lulled into the soft rhythms of nature before moving to a place of deep emotion and nostalgia described by performance and dance.

Works by Tinka Bechert and Hazel McCrann in The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo 2024

Works by Patricia Doherty and Barrie Cooke in The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo 2024

Works by Clea Van Der Grijn and Lorna Watkins in The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo 2024

The exhibition was funded by Creative Ireland

Alice Stopford Green, Ellen Cuffe (Countess of Desart), Jennie Wyse Power and Eileen Costello, the first four women elected to Seanad Éireann in 1922 Photography Dickon Whitehead

In late 2022 I was commissioned by the Office of Public Works to create portraits of the first four women elected to the first Seanad Éireann in 1922. The paintings are now part of the State Collection at Leinster House and hang at the top of the Seanad stairs.

The making of the portraits was a rewarding learning experience for me. Prior to the commission I was unfamiliar with Alice Stopford Green, Ellen Cuffe (Countess of Desart) , Jennie Wyse Power and Eileen Costello. Through my research I discovered four diversely different women who are all equally interesting and who all contributed significantly to the Ireland we live in today.

I would encourage others to learn more about these women and their achievements but in brief words:

Alice was a historian, a nationalist writer, a member of Cumann na Saoirse and a close confident to Michael Collins.

Ellen was a philanthropist and a humanitarian. Anyone familiar with Kilkenny will know her name well as she put in place the hospital, the theatre, factories and businesses that provided jobs and income for its people.

Jennie was a leading suffragist, a founding member of Cumann na mBan and later Cumann na Saoirse. She was active during the Easter Rising and the War of Independence.  It was at her shop on Henry St that the proclamation was signed before being brought to the GPO. She was also Vice President of Sinn Féin.

Eileen Costello was also a member of Cumann na Saoirse. She was a collector of Irish songs and music for Irish Schools and Gaelic League classes. She had a strong voice in the Seanad, promoting and pushing for equality for women.

They were women with great presence of mind, determination and a heartfelt commitment to Ireland and its people. In painting them I have tried to reflect these qualities and bring colour and vivacity to their images and the way in which they are remembered. The format of the portraits is intimate, an invitation to meet with them face to face as individuals.

I feel most grateful to have been given the opportunity to play a part in honouring them and the formal acknowledgement of their contribution to The Seanad by the addition of their portraits to the walls of Leinster House. 

Seanad Eireann hosts commemoration to mark centenary of Upper House…… Picture shows Cathaoirleach of Seanad Eireann Senator MarK Daly with Visual artist Emma Stroude with her portraits of Alice Stopford Green, Ellen Cuffe (Countess of Desart) ,  Jennie Wyse Poser and Eileen Costello in Leinster House after the Centenary sitting in the Dail chamber of Seanad Eireann. Pic Maxwell’s

Seanad Eireann hosts commemoration to mark centenary of Upper House…… Picture shows visual artist Emma Stroude with her portraits of Alice Stopford Green, Ellen Cuffe , (Countess of Desart) , Jennie Wyse Power and Eileen Costello in Leinster House after the Centenary sitting in the Dail chamber of Seanad Eireann. Pic Maxwell’s

My sincere thanks to all involved, especially Jacquie Moore and her team at the OPW, Aine McCarthy & Medbh Gillard who supported my research and Bespoke & Co. Framers of Kilkenny who framed the work with perfection.

In 2022 I became the recipient of the Inaugural In Plain Sight Commission at King’s Inns and The Bar of Ireland. The initiative was developed to celebrate the achievements and enhance the visibility of women in the field of law that have demonstrated significant leadership, influence and contribution to legal practice and education.

The first commission is a double portrait to celebrate the lives and achievements of Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell, the first two women to be called to The Bar in Ireland and the UK in 1921. 

I am truly grateful and honoured to have been awarded the opportunity to highlight the achievements of Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell. They blazed a trail for women against the backdrop of the struggle for women’s rights and during a volatile period of Irish history. I hope that bringing a new focus to their lives and legacy will encourage the women of today interested in pursuing a career in law.

Susan Ahern BL and Aoife Farrelly BL Talk About The Commission

Mary Griffin – CEO & Under Treasurer King’s Inns, His Honour Judge Dara Hayes – Judge of the Circuit Court and Renate Ní Uigín – Librarian King’s Inns discuss the purpose of the portrait

Follow the link below to hear an interview with me where I talk about the process of the commission and my experience of making the double portrait of Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell.

Artist Emma Stroude In Conversation – In Plain Sight Commission The Bar Of Ireland

There’s not long left now to get to the RHA to devour the visual feast for the eyes that is the Annual Exhibition 2022. This year I have two paintings in the exhibition (a first for me!) ‘Within The Guidelines’ and ‘Angelique’ pictured below. Don’t miss it! All works can be viewed and purchased via the viewing rooms…. just follow this link RHA VIEWING ROOMS

Emma Stroude – ‘Within The Guidelines’, Oil on Canvas, 70cm x 50cm, currently showing in the RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin

‘Angelique’ – Oil on canvas, 25cm x 20cm, 2022

I was honoured to be among the artists mentioned in the Aidan Dunne’s review of the exhibition in The Irish Times. Read it here:

 RHA annual exhibition: Sprawling, unpredictable vitality

Emma Stroude, Tumble Series, 2020

Standing in the same space as a work of art can be such a powerfully moving experience and when the gallery doors closed across the country for the first time I knew I would miss it but I never imagined just how much. Thankfully we know now that the doors will open once more and we will all flood back in to the galleries and museums to stand mesmerised again by the pieces that just wont let us pass them by without stopping to question. Until then online exhibitions are keeping us all going and, with that in mind, I have my own small online exhibition in conjunction with Hambly & Hambly of Enniskillen coming up and viewable from December 7th on the Imagine Facebook Page.  Until real life shows are possible again I hope you enjoy this virtual one.