Emma Buckmaster

Emma Buckmaster is a printmaker and ceramicist based on a medieval organic farm in Suffolk. She studied printmaking at the Cambridge School of Art (Anglia Ruskin University), specialising in etching for her master's degree, before extending her practice into ceramics. Trees run through both bodies of work: for ten years she collaborated with Janet French on a series of "Tree Portraits" — large etchings, several printed on paper handmade from the leaves of the very trees they depict — under the name Buckmaster & French. These Tree Portraits have been selected and sold out four times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and two of her Newmarket racing prints are held in the V&A's Print Collection. Her etching Quercus V won the Printmakers Prize at the Royal Over-Seas League. She is currently developing ceramic glazes made from the wood ash of different trees. Her work has been shown widely, including at Messums, Houghton Hall, Norwich Cathedral, Gainsborough's House and Gallery East, Woodbridge.