"Botanical Dreamscapes"
Artfolios is honored to be collaborating with Revolution Mill in Greensboro for the show "Botanical Dreamscapes" featuring the work of Emily Clare. The Central Gallery at Revolution Mill is located at 1150 Revolution Mill Drive, Greensboro, NC 27405. The show—which was curated by Carrie Leigh Dickey, Artfolios’ Owner & Visionary—can be enjoyed beginning April 1 - June 20, 2025. (https://www.artfolios.shop/emily-clare-gallery)
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Artfolios invites the community to join us on Saturday, April 5 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm for an Opening Reception with the artist. Come see and discuss this mystical collection of Emily’s most recent works—created from 2022 to 2025. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome. Hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Emily Clare’s art is also a record. Her botanical and eco prints start with pressings of native, invasive, and exotic plants she finds during evening walks around her Winston-Salem home, as well as during wooded explorations and residency excursions across the Southeast. Her marks are made with leaves and ink, not paintbrushes or pens, letting nature lead the way.
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Printed in bold colors and occasionally outlined in neon, her prints seem to almost buzz, bustle, and flutter, electrically charged with energy and imploring you to take a closer look at scores of natural phenomena that are often taken for granted.
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For the artist, spending time outdoors and surveying flora and fauna is a practice in mindfulness, a meditative space that breaks from the disruptions of the everyday. Printing the landscape has the same effect—a restorative, recentering undertaking that keeps her present and grounded.
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Working intuitively and intentionally, Emily’s works express her connection to the environment and the importance of stewardship of the Earth’s natural resources.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Emily Clare is an artist living and working in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who’s imagination is sparked by natures beauty and mystique. For Emily, art began as a way to examine the natural world. It has evolved into a deeper exploration of the full range of experiences, emotions, and relationships in her life. She draws her imagery from a lifelong fascination with nature’s flora and fauna. For her current body of work, Emily abstracts parts of plants to create a visual statement that transcends the original.