Emily Cole at Future50

Emily Cole paints views glimpsed in passing – landscapes and city scenes seen through the window of a moving train, car or, sometimes, even a journey by foot. Cole usually works from digital photographs, taking countless images during a journey from which to later select just a few to turn into paintings. These are then presented in the form of a narrative sequence – though sometimes in reverse direction of the original journey – the changing landscape along Cole's chosen route shifting from the city, to the semi-rural, before emerging into the open countryside

Loosely painted with bold brushstrokes, often with blocked-in colours and shapes, she captures the transient nature of travel. Often painted 'wet-in-wet', foreground and background dissolve into one another, as if 'everything is pressed up onto the surface'