Daisy Emerson is a British artist specialising in hand painted type and lettering. Daisy Emerson's artworks are primarily created with the method of traditional sign writing and gilding. The beautiful handcrafted words are often produced on luxurious materials such as polished or honed marble stone, as well as brass and lacquered wood.
Daisy Emerson is a British artist specialising in hand painted type and lettering. Daisy Emerson's artworks are primarily created with the method of traditional sign writing and gilding. The beautiful handcrafted words are often produced on luxurious materials such as polished or honed marble stone, as well as brass and lacquered wood.
Emerson has a highly distinctive style, with a bold, modern and slick lettering style that is often highly finessed and crafted to perfection, as well as a signature pastel colour palette that often features pink. The artist creates her prints using tradition hand-pulled silk screen printing and often hand-finishes her work with gold leaf, metallic inks and glitter. We love how Emerson creates beautiful pieces for beautiful settings. Emerson does private commissions and also works with a wide selection of more commercial clients, collaborating with high-end fashion and beauty brands which has enabled her to travel throughout Europe and the U.S.A, including Paris, Milan, New York, and Los Angeles.
Emerson has worked with Estée Lauder, Nicholas Kirkwood, Google, Carnaby, Michael Kors, Adidas, Arcadia, John Lewis and Facebook.
Emerson has a strong interiors focus.
Emerson studied Art & Design at Central Saint Martins and then Book Arts at London College of Communication.
Emerson could do lots of different hand-writing styles when she was younger.
Emerson is based in East London.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Featured In:
Daisy Emerson is a British artist specialising in hand painted type and lettering. She primarily uses the method of traditional sign writing and gilding to produce beautiful handcrafted words, often on luxurious materials such as polished or honed marble stone, as well as brass and lacquered wood. Daisy has a highly distinctive style with her signature pastel colour palette, with pink being one of the most consistently used colours in her work. More often she will also lovingly hand finish most of her pieces with gold leaf. Here, we spend a day in the life of Daisy Emerson, from morning ...
