Emily Sutton’s new exhibition, Animals Everywhere, opened at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh on 29 October. Among the paintings and works on paper are the original ink and watercolours for our three newest die-cut cards, the Bookshop, the Pet Emporium and the Parisian Café, which we recently released.
The show marks a return to the city where Emily trained. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art before going on to Rhode Island School of Design, and it was in Edinburgh that textiles first became an important part of her practice. A new group of monochrome embroideries on painted cotton reconnects with that early work.
As the title suggests, animals are rarely absent. Emily’s eye is drawn to the dog in the street, pigeons on a building, horses in a field. Within the works exhibited, they turn up in stable yards and allotments, on Parisian streets and in country hedgerows.
The exhibition also includes new garden and hedgerow studies in ink, watercolour and coloured pencil, with goldfinches among sunflowers, sparrows in rosehips and a blackbird in an apple tree. As the gallery puts it, look closely, and there is always something else to discover.
Emily Sutton: Animals Everywhere is at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, until 21 November 2026. The full exhibition can be viewed on the gallery’s website.
Read our previous journal entry about her growing High Street shop collection.
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