Emma Jönsson

Emma Jönsson (b. 1961, Katrineholm, Sweden) is an artist based in Floda, Södermanland. Her textile embroideries evoke a form of narrative painting, where the interaction between color palette and material becomes part of the storytelling. The works are often made on carefully selected velvet that functions as the canvas. Sometimes it is left as is; at other times it is dyed and altered by the artist herself. Through delicate stitching, a constellation of symbols flows across the velvet. Jönsson depicts people, animals, plants, architecture, and nature in unusual contexts. Her visual language draws on traditions of surrealism, magical realism, and fantasy.