Paint Lingers - Emma Woolley

Paint Lingers brings together a body of figurative oil paintings by Birmingham-based artist Emma Woolley. Through her emotionally charged portraits, Woolley explores memory, connection, and the quiet power of paint to hold moments in time.

The book features key works from The Wonder Series, The Space Between Us, and Impromptu-three collections that trace a deeply personal journey of rediscovery after loss. Across these series, her work captures intimacy, vulnerability, and the enduring human spirit through expressive mark-making and subtle shifts in tone.

Paint Lingers is both a visual archive and a meditation on why we create. It reflects Woolley's return to painting after grief, her instinctive engagement with oil, charcoal, and gesture, and her ongoing search for stillness and meaning through portraiture.

Published independently in the United Kingdom, this monograph offers readers an insight into the artist's evolving practice, combining fine art sensibility with honesty, tenderness, and emotional depth.