Celia Lees / Just Like I Was There Photographs Emily Newman

Emily Newman

Her work is an exploration of the every day familiar with a search for truths

and inner peace

embroidered into the canvas in thread

Celia Lees / Just Like I Was There Photographs Emily NewmanCelia Lees is an abstract artist. She began painting in search of self expression and more profound connection with both life and herself. Celia Lees often works in large scale format, using the motions of her body to intuitively inform her applications onto the canvas. This series of smaller scale works, while rare in Celia's practice, was made possible by using offcuts from larger canvases. In other words, she created large scale works and took the