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Emma Jennings Gallery & Studio, 8A Mt Dandenong Tourist Rd, Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Open Thursday to Sunday 11 to 5pm or by appointment | Say hi at gallery@emmajennings.com.au
Living amongst the temperate forests of Mt Corhanwarrabul in the Dandenong Ranges, Emma maintains a full-time multidisciplinary practice from her studio and gallery in Olinda, presenting a continuous program of her work.
Working predominantly with handmade Japanese paper and reclaimed materials, she prioritises sustainability while exploring the tension between beauty and destruction, hope and resilience, responding to the frequency and intensity of natural disasters and their impact on people and place. Experimenting with soil and charcoal collected from the forest to make paint, allows her work to maintain a physical connection with the ideas in the work.
She conceived and led a creative recovery project in response to the 2021 storms that impacted her community which was exhibited at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum in 2024 and at the Cardinia Cultural Centre in 2025, where she was artist in residence. In 2025 she was invited to exhibit two portraits in Burrinja’s Women Painting Women exhibition and in 2023, won the People’s Choice Award at the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale. She is a finalist in the 2026 Biennale, as well as the Victorian Sculpture Association prize and Toorak village sculpture prize. Using Japanese paper and wire, she is extending the work from the two dimensional into a suspended, kinetic form, evoking the colours and shapes of the natural world.
Emma maintains a busy commission based practice, working closely with clients to make work customised for their home. This also extends to larger scale public artwork sculptures for Parks Victoria, highly designed and site specific, working closely with landscape architects and fabricators.
Her work is held in private collections in Australia and internationally.
 Layers of gold and earthen goodness |  Waiting, 2025 Mixed media on Japanese paper |  Private CommissionSOLD |
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 Forest fire seed dispersal 2025SOLD |  Walking with ghosts at dusk 2026 |  Thoughts and dreams to wander inSold |
 Gentle petal curlJapanese paper and wire |  Dragon forest |  Forest 2025Sold |
 Silver layers 2025Sold |  Listening for beauty and hopeJapanese paper and wire |  The enganglement of storm, fire, flood, chaos, grief and hope, 2025 1500mm x 2700mm |
 Montrose fire 2025Sold |  Busy, peaceful textured forest 2025Sold |  Blue forest windy and burnt 2025 |
 Blue hue forest layers, 2025Sold |  Small forestSold |  Fuel Reduction 2025 |
 The forest never sleeps SOLDSold |  Private CommissionSold |  Olinda Whispers Private commissionOlinda Whispers Private commission, 2024 Watercolour and gouache on Japanese paper, two panels, 2m wide x 1.5m high Sold |
 Little blue hills and clouds III 2024Little blue hills and clouds III 2024 Sold |  'Forest dancing in the golden heat II' 2024Sold |  'Hazy Bronze Forest I' 2023Watercolour and Gouache on Japanese paper Sold |
 'Forest Breathing I' 2024Sold |  Private CommissionSold |  Gilded Forest SwellWatercolour and Gouache on Japanese paper Sold |
 'Controlled chaos' 2022 Portrait of Bill Robinson, Captain, Kalorama and Mt Dandenong CFAControlled chaos, 2022 Portrait of Bill Robinson, Captain, Kalorama and Mt Dandenong CFA |  'Home' 2024 Portrait of Ben Owen, Unit Controller, Emerald SES Oil and acrylic on salvaged blackwoodHome, 2024 Portrait of Ben Owen, Unit Controller, Emerald SES Oil and acrylic on salvaged blackwood |  'Angel at my door' 2024 Portrait of Sharon Styles, Australian Red Cross volunteer, Belgrave residentAngel at my door, 2024 Portrait of Sharon Styles, Australian Red Cross volunteer, Belgrave resident |
 'Fields of flowers and friends' 2024 Portrait of Deb Sargenston, Yarra Ranges CouncilFields of flowers and friends, 2024 Portrait of Deb Sargenston, Yarra Ranges Council, local resident |  'Remnants of a garden in spring' 2024 Portrait of Errol Lobo, Kalorama resident & Monbulk Men’s ShedRemnants of a garden in spring, 2024 Portrait of Errol Lobo, Kalorama resident & Monbulk Men’s Shed |  They will always play 2024 Portrait of Mt Dandenong Preschool 1957-2021 Acrylic on salvaged BlackwooThey will always play, 2024 Portrait of Mt Dandenong Preschool 1957-2021 Acrylic on salvaged Blackwood |
 'Somehow we carry on' 2023Watercolour and gouache on Japanese paper and toilet paper. 200cm x 65cm Currently on display at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum until September 8 - prints available at Emma Jennings Gallery |  Superimposed collaboration 2024Monoprint, watercolour and gouache on paper Sold |  EmmaJennings Beauty in the Blues smWatercolour and Gouache on Japanese paper Sold |
 'Gilded Sibling Forest' 2023Gouache on Japanese paper 32 x 15cm each SOLD |  Concept sketch Angela Wooden |  Transcending The Grey 2023Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper SOLD |
 'Future Fighters' 2022Oil and acrylic on Australian ecoply board 200 x 75cm Burrinja Climate Change Biennale December 3 2022 |  'Above and Below Dark' 2022Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 31 x 23cm |  'Above and Below Light' 2022Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 31 x 23cm SOLD |
 ‘New view of the valley from Mathias Track’ 2022 SOLDWatercolour on handmade Japanese paper Framed 111 x 61cm |  ‘Storm Morning Olinda Reserve’ 2021 SOLDAcrylic on ecoply board Framed 124 x 84cm |  Frisby Fitzgerald Landscape Architects CommissionAcrylic on eco ply boards 1m x 4m SOLD |
 ‘The inconsistent distribution of compassion’ 2017Oil and acrylic on Australian Hoopine board 195 x 80cm SOLD |  'The Pretty Golden Hangers' 2022Gouache on handmade Nepalese paper Framed 89 x 62cm SOLD |  'Cross Cut' 2022 SOLDWatercolour, goauche, charcoal and oil pastel on Japanese paper Framed 63 x 63cm |
 'Gilded ferns on a sawn log print' 2022 SOLDMixed media on Japanese bamboo paper Unframed 54 x 28cm |  'Tree roots, trunks, branches and hangers' 2022Watercolour, goauche and oil pastel on Japanese paper SOLD |  'Canopies Suspended and Upside Down' 2022 SOLDWatercolour, goauche and oil pastel on Japanese paper Framed 124 x 57cm |
 'Wet Bark Meanderings' 2022 SOLDCharcoal, earth pigment and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 63.5 x 28cm |  'The River Remembers' 2021 SOLDWatercolour on Japanese bamboo paper |  'There is goodness in the grey' 2021Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper SOLD |
 ‘2019 Fish Kills at Darling River - Drought, Fire, Flood’ 2021Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 55.5 x 109cm |  'Anatomy of Existence' 2016Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper and canvas 180cm x 61cm SOLD |  'Beautiful River II' 2021 SOLDWatercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper Framed 46 x 24cm |
 'Small Thomas' 2016Oil on handmade Japanese paper on board 40 x 20cm Not For Sale |  ‘The Bent and Burnt Blue Bunyip Forest (after the 2019 bushfires)’ 2021 SOLDWatercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper |  ‘The Wondrous Endurance of Life’ 2021Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 74 x 217cm |
 'Sway' 2021 SOLDWatercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper |  Little River 2020 SOLDWatercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 18.5 x 30.5cm |  Emma Jennings The Dying Gilded Ocean 2020 SOLDMixed media on handmade Japanese paper 34 x 65cm SOLD |
 Tree 2019Watercolour on handmade Japanese paper 64 x 194cm SOLD |  Shadow Rain II 2019Acrylic on Board 97 x 39cm |  Forest Cloud II 2019Watercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper SOLD |
 The Score 2019Gouache on handmade Nepalese paper 76 x 25.5cm SOLD |  Transitional Infusion 2018Gouache on handmade Nepalese paper 76 x 25.5cm SOLD |  'Air' 2015 SOLDGouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 50 x 180cm Finalist Burrinja Climate Change Biennale |
 Float 2018Watercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 22.5 x 14.5cm SOLD |  Crossing 2018 SOLDWatercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 22.5 x 14.5cm |  Drift I, II, III 2018Watercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 22.5 x 13cm each SOLD |
 Bronzing 2018Watercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 63.5 x 29cm SOLD |  Fluidity 2018Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 41.3cm x 14.3cm SOLD |  Fluidity III 2018Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 41.3cm x 14.3cm SOLD |
 Swell 2018Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese paper 41.3cm x 14.3cm |  Shadow Rain 2018Mixed Media on Board 30.5 x 22.8cm SOLD |  Little Blue ForestMixed Media on board 30.5 x 23cm SOLD |
 Golden DriftWatercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese paper 47 x 29cm SOLD |  Underground WhispersGouache and watercolour on handmade Japanese paper 30.5 x 20.5cm SOLD |  Blue WaterGouache and Watercolour on handmade unryushi paper 61 x 153cm SOLD |
 Silver PrincessWatercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese paper 51 x 40.5cm SOLD |  The Ecology of Survival ICoastal Tea Tree at Cape Schanck, Victoria, 2017 Watercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 96 x 127cm SOLD |  The Ecology of Survival IICoastal Banksia at Cape Schanck, Victoria, 2017 Watercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 96 x 39.5cm SOLD |
 Coral Lagoon 2016Gouache on handmade Japanese paper 97 x 45cm SOLD |  Blue Fog 2016 SOLDGouache and watercolour on handmade Japanese paper 28 x 96cm |  Journey IIWatercolour and Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 63.5 x 29cm SOLD |
 Forest Floor 2016Gouache and watercolour on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 80 x 60cm SOLD |  Aqua Swell 2016Gouache on handmade Nepalese paper 76.5 x 26cm SOLD |  'Landscape Drift' 2016SOLD |
 'Glint' 2016SOLD |  'Anatomy of Existence' 2016Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper and canvas 180cm x 61cm SOLD |  'Breathing Tree' 2016Gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper and canvas 180cm x 61cm SOLD |
 'Emanate' 2016Acrylic and ink on board 15.5cm x 15.5cm SOLD |  'Perpetual' 2016Gouache and ink on handmade Japanese unryushi paper and canvas 40.5cm x 20.5cm SOLD |  'Gentle Drift' 2016Gouache and ink on handmade Japanese unryushi paper and canvas 30.5cm x 20cm SOLD |
 'Indigo Drift' 2016Gouache on handmade Nepalese paper 26 x 76cm SOLD |  'Bonsai Leafvine' 2015Gouache on handmade Japanese paper 49 x 40cm Private Commission SOLD |  'Journey' 2015Gouache on handmade Japanese paper and canvas 35 x 39cm SOLD |
 Untitled 2015Gouache on Japanese unryushi paper 35 x 25cm SOLD |  Untitled Commission 2015Gouache on Japanese unryushi paper 35 x 97cm Private Commission |  Time To Breathe 2014 SOLDGouache on paper 15 x 25cm approx |
 'After Fire' 2015Watercolour and gouache on handmade Japanese unryushi paper 1830 x 606mm SOLD |  'Indigo Cloud' 2014Acrylic and resin on ecoply board 40 x 30cm SOLD |  'Eucalyptus Tide' 2014Gouache on Awagami Japanese unryushi paper 52 x 90cm Private Commission SOLD |
 'Dance Of The Blossom' 2014Gouache and watercolour on Awagami bamboo paper 28 x 73cm Private Commission SOLD |  Emma Jennings Needlework 2014Acrylic on reclaimed timber SOLD |  Emma Jennings Gilded Iris 2014Acrylic on reclaimed timber SOLD |
 'Whispering Bark' 2014Gouache and copper acrylic on wood panels 25 x 60cm SOLD |  'Blue Gum Gleaming' 2014Gouache and copper acrylic on Japanese unryushi paper and canvas. 91.5 x 61cm SOLD |  Dance Of The Land 2014 SOLDGouache and acrylic on Japanese unryushi paper and canvas 51 x 153cm |
 Copper Leaf on Purple Tiles 2014Gouache on Japanese Unryushi Paper and Copper Leaf 30 x 30cm SOLD |  Unravel 2014 SOLDGouache on Japanese mulberry paper 800 x 1300mm |  Forest Whispers 2013 SOLDGouache on handmade Nepalese Paper 72 x 48cm |
 Sky Dreaming 2013 SOLDGouache on Japanese Unryushi Paper 93 x 64cm Prints available online |  Wisteria Wave 2013Gouache on Japanese Unryushi Paper 44cm x 58cm 263 Mt Dandenong Tourist Road Sassafras |  Wall Mural 2013 DetailBlacksmith’s Way, Belgrave Victoria |
 Autumn Festival 2013 SOLDGouache on Japanese Mulberry Paper 40cm x 84cm |  Serpentine Leafvine 2012 SOLDWatercolour and Gouache on Japanese Paper 44cm x 126cm Commissioned painting Click to see more photos |  Red Green Leafvine Fading 2011 SOLDWatercolour and Gouache on Japanese Paper 26cm x 78cm Prints available online |
 Long Leafvine on Blue SOLDGouache on Japanese Paper 40cm x 120cm Prints available online |  White Circles on Blue 2010 SOLDGouache on Japanese Paper 50cm x 72cm Prints available online |  White Fans on Silk 2010Gouache on Japanese Paper 67cm x 90cm SOLD |
 Meandering Leafvine 2010 SOLDGouache and Watercolour on Japanese Paper 67cm x 90cm Prints available online |  Brittle Scrub 2011 SOLDAcrylic on Canvas 28cm x 35cm Prints available online |  Brachina Gorge 2010 SOLDAcrylic on Canvas 28cm x 35cm Prints available online |
 Grampians 2008Acrylic on Canvas 190cm x 122cm |
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