Born in 1952 in New York City, Emily lived the first half of her childhood in the Hudson River Valley, and the second half in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she began a lifelong relationship with the expansiveness of water and sky. In 1974 she studied in Hawaii in Hawaii for the most of 28 years from 1976 to 2004, and raised two daughters. She studied painting, gender studies, and education at the University of Hawaii. She was again instrumental in the inclusion of a women's studies program being added to the curriculum at Kapiolani Community College. She taught art classes to homeless families, and exhibited paintings and mixed media installations that combined painting and living nature. The artist is now living, traveling, and painting on the Northwest coast.

My paintings translate inner mythic direction into colors and resonant forms of nature. I have resided in many places near the ocean, both cold and tropical. My attention has been captured by the waves of the sky and ocean, and has joined with the colors.

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