User:Tlove13/Emma Ferreira

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Emma Feriera is a British born, Los Angeles based multi-media artist. Since 1998, she has been a full-time contributor to the contemporary art world. She is revered as Los Angeles’ preeminent young, mixed media artist and her commissioned works are in high demand. Her philanthrophic endeavours are also highly notable, working with such organizations as Operation Smile, US Doctors in Cambodia, Project Angel Food, Hollywood Hearts, Dream Can Come True, HMF, Art of Elysium and Witness. In 2009 & 2010 Emma was the featured artist for Los Angeles’ annual Brit Week and was also asked and accepted being on the annual committee. Her works are owned by such notables as Jermey Piven, Kerry Simon, Leanna Rimes, Jason Statham, HBO, CBS, Fox, The Cosmopolitan Hotel, and The Palms Hotel. Her works have showed with the likes of Herb Ritz, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Marc Chagall. Her works have garnered so much attention that they were recently auctioned at international auction house, Christie’s in Beverly Hills. Born in Buckinghamshire, England and formally educated in London, she first begin with photography in order to represent the human form as more than just a model seen through the lens of a camera, but to portray the meditative complexities and consciousness that lies beneath the individual’s external appearance. The results are sensually balanced, vibrantly colored photographs that exude a richness of texture and depth of creativity. She takes art to the next level with her innovative productions of mixed media creations. Movement explodes from her art through her use of acrylics, paints, resins, and mementos ranging from worldwide newspapers to Eighteenth Century door hinges. Travelling the world in search of such trinkets to recycle and integrate into her works. Emma’s compositions evoke powerful responses from viewers who find themselves taken aback by the enormity of emotion flowing from her work. She passionately believes that art holds the power to awaken people’s consciousness. Her success has afforded her the opportunity to give back in the pursuit of her philanthropic endeavors that fuel her passion for serving children.