Works – Emma Cox

This is a place to encounter work shaped by my wanderings and contemplations throughout Cornwall.

These collections bring together photography, sketching, painting and text, echoing the original trail followed across the landscape.

Mor / Sea

Horizons and edges shaped by weather and tide.

An acrylic on canvas painting of clouds over a calm Cornish sea approaching sunset. — **Winter Reflections**
The metallic colours of the early sunset reflect in the calm sea.

Acrylic seascape painting of the Cornish coastline, waves breaking on shore, sunlight sparkling on the sea. — **Mor Teg I (Beautiful Sea)**
Sunlight sparkles on the water. Breaking waves disperse and disappear into the sand.

Acrylic seascape painting showing a wave breaking on a Cornish sandy shore. — **Wave Break**
A wave dissolves into the sand.

Explore the Sea…

Men / Stone

Lithic landscapes above and below, where industry and memory lie.

A black and white photograph of a high cliff viewed from the beach. Geological bands of dark rock and white quartz make layers and patters. A tiny figure sat on the beach gives a sense of the immense scale of the cliff. — **Cliff Face**
White quartz ribbons through black stone

A black and white photograph of a Cornish Fogou. It shows the inside of this manmade ancient underground drystone enclosure. The passage is lined with granite stone walls with a large lintel ceiling. The floor is soil and half flooded by rainwater. — **Carn Euny Fogou**
An ancient stone chamber partly flooded by the rain.

A black and white photograph of a tall granite Cornish standing stone in rough ground beneath a dramatic sky — **Between Earth and Sky**
A lone menhir under a dramatic sky.

Explore the Stone…

Goon / Moor

Exposed granite tors and untamed upland.

A photograph looking out over Bodmin moor. A ring of ancient perimeter stones surrounds the summit with views across the open moorland. — **Stowes Pound, Bodmin Moor**
A ring of stones protects the summit.

A photograph of Fernacre stone circle in view of Rough Tor, Bodmin Moor. — **Fernacre Stone Circle**
The scattered remains of a stone circle beneath Rough Tor

A black and white photograph of open moorland covered in a light dusting of snow. In the foreground is a stone from one of the three stone circles which makes the Hurlers. In the middle distance is the central stone circle. — **The Hurlers, Minions**
A light covering of snow rests on the moorland

Explore the Moor…

Nans / Vale

Sheltered hollows, streams and leafy shade.

A long exposure photograph of a waterfall cascading down a mossy rock face. The water fall reaches a basin framed by an arch (kieve) and pours through it into the stream. — **St Nectan’s Kieve**
The damp air is filled by the sound of the waterfall.

An acrylic painting of a Cornish beech woodland carpeted by bluebells. The low spring sun streams through the trees, casting long shadows on the ground. — **The Golden Hour**
The low sun streams through the trees.

An ink pen drawing of a twisted oak in winter amongst a wood of similar trees. This is an example of a Temperate Rainforest, which once covered much of Cornwall. — **Twisted Oak**
Stunted trees reach for the winter light.

Explore the Vale…

Darnow / Fragments

Fleeting thoughts, studies and quick sketches.

A pen and watercolour sketch of the leaning central stone of Boscawen-ûn Stone Circle. The colours are muted yellows, oranges and purples.

Birthday Boscawen-ûn Stone Circle

I found a sepia ink pen dropped by another artist within Boscawen-ûn stone circle. It felt rude not to use it in a quick sketch of the central leaning stone. I tried looking for the carved feet at the base, but the light was not good enough to spot them.

The Giant’s Footprint

Photography taught me to study my surroundings. Is it an inlet winding its way out to the sea, or is it a tiny rock pool? Sometimes, the biggest landscapes are to be found in the smallest of places.

The Piper

Solitary megaliths on the periphery of a stone circle are typically associated with Christian folklore, which claims they are pipers petrified to stone for playing music on the Sabbath. What was its true purpose, I wonder?