Val Emmerson studied art at Hornsey College North London and briefly had a small weave workshop before moving to Hong Kong with her family. It was there that she began producing artworks for the Friends of Samaritans.

Today she predominately paints although elements of her textile background is always seeping through. Val always enjoys experimenting with new ideas using collage, stitching (using her great grandmother’s hand sewing machine), stapling and creating varying surfaces sometimes on which to paint. Her work includes landscape patterns seen fleetingly, whilst travelling by train or plane, simply when ‘on-the-move’. In a similar way Val loves the idea of putting little bits of life together.