Born in 1989 in Encinitas, CA, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Emma Webster’s landscape paintings teleport viewers into the otherworldly. The places she depicts, convincing and hallucinatory, merge spatial expectations with mystifying fantasy. The paintings come from a hybrid sketching-sculpting process within screen-space. Webster first constructs scenes in virtual reality, which she then embellishes with theatrical illumination, to create natural vistas that relish in artifice, drama, and distortion. Of her VR models, Webster says: “Working from within the still-life is more akin to how we go about the world. There can be no ‘outside.’”
Emma Webster (b. 1989) is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, 2011) and Yale University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 2018. In 2021, Webster published Lonescape: Green, Painting, & Mourning Reality, a collection of musings on landscape and image-making in an increasingly digital world.
艾瑪·韋伯斯特的風景畫將觀者帶入另一個世界。她所描繪的地方，既令人信服又令人產生幻覺，將人們的期望與神秘的幻想融為一體。這些繪畫來自於電腦裡的混合素描-雕刻過程。她首先在虛擬實境中建構場景，然後用戲劇性的燈光加以照明，創造出充滿假象、戲劇性和扭曲的自然景觀。對於她的VR模型，韋伯斯特說：『從靜物裡面開始創作，更接近於我們在世界上的生活方式。不可能有「外部」。』
艾瑪·韋伯斯特（b. 1989）畢業於斯坦福大學（2011本科) 和耶魯大學，並於2018年獲得繪畫碩士學位。2021年，韋伯斯特出版了《Lonescape：Green, Painting, & Mourning Reality》，這是一本在日益數字化的世界中，對景觀與影像製作的思考集。
