Emma Scutt

Below is a selection of my hand drawn/hand painted illustrations.

To commission an illustration please email me: emmascuttartist@gmail.com 

Big ceramic mugs with a design printed front and back, or wrap-around. £12.

Holds 325ml. Dishwasher & microwave safe.

Designs available - Fleabag, Hot Priest, Killing Eve, Kathy Burke, Line of Duty, RuPaul, Lady Hale, Welcome to Fabulous Walthamstow, Hitchcock, Wonder Cat, Superdog, Batdog, PugBee, Kamala Harris, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Grayson Perry, Gentleman Jack.

Suffragette wraparound designs: Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davison.

Mugs available from my Etsy online shop and can be posted anywhere worldwide:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/EmmaScuttArt?ref=search_shop_redirect

My Hastings calendars each feature 12 watercolour paintings of my favourite places in Hastings.

The calendar is limited edition with 200 copies signed and numbered by me, price £15. I will be donating £1 from every copy sold to the Hastings Bonfire Society.

The calendar is available to purchase from my on-line Etsy shop: Hastings 2025 Calendar - Etsy UK

Calendars are also on sale soon at:

Hastings Contemporary

Turn the Tide gift shop, George Street

The Crown, All Saint’s Street

All 36 original watercolour paintings are for sale, and A4/A3 giclee prints are available to order. Please contact me for details: emmascuttartist@gmail.com

A6 cards + envelope, £3 each + P&P

Most of my greetings card and Christmas card designs are available from my Etsy online shop:

Greetings cards:

Emma Scutt Art Greetings Cards

Christmas Cards:

EmmaScuttArt - Etsy UK

If you’d like to order a card which isn’t already listed on my Etsy shop please email me: emmascuttartist@gmail.com

Giclee prints on 310gsm Hahnemuhle textured paper:

A4 - £40 / A3 - £55

Inkjet print on 210gsm Hahnemuhle archival textured paper:

A4 - £30

Prints can be posted anywhere worldwide. Available to buy from my Etsy online shop:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmmaScuttArt

Any of the illustrations from my eight Walthamstow calendars can be ordered as individual A4 or A3 giclee prints - go to the “Walthamstow Calendar” page to view all 96 illustrations.

To order a print please email me: emmascuttartist@gmail.com

I paint colour portraits in acrylic on canvas, or watercolour on paper. I draw portraits in ink or pencil on paper.

To commission a portrait please email me: emmascuttartist@gmail.com 

Portraits celebrating Women in STEM, an exhibition created for the 2017 E17 Art Trail in Walthamstow. The portraits show Helen Sharman, Guilema Lister, Louisa Martindale, Ada Lovelace, Rosalind Franklin and Katherine Johnson.

The portraits are acrylic on canvas, size A3, and available for sale £250. (The Helen Sharman portrait has been sold)

Prints are available to order, A4 giclee prints £40 / A3 £55. 

Please email emmascuttartist@gmail.com with any enquiries.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is when a girl’s genitals are either partially or totally removed for non-medical reasons. I’d heard of FGM and thought I knew what it was, but I learned much more when I attended an event at Waltham Forest Town Hall in June 2014, where I first heard Hibo Wardere talk openly and graphically about this practice. I was shocked to hear of the different stages of FGM, and how complicit the families are - especially the mothers of the girls. Hibo's speech was incredibly powerful and moving, and she made me laugh and cry. After the talk I met Hibo, I was so moved by her speech and felt compelled to help somehow. As an artist I thought maybe this could be my way of raising awareness and educating people about FGM and I began to think about painting portraits of Hibo and her friends from the FGM campaign community.

I painted portraits of Hibo Wardere, Alimatu Dimonekene and Leyla Hussein, I also interviewed them and wrote their stories to display alongside the paintings. In June 2015 the portraits were exhibited for the first time during the E17 Art Trail, attracting hundreds of visitors, who also attended a talk by the women. In 2016 the portraits went on a tour of Waltham Forest libraries, and were also exhibited at the William Morris Gallery, culminating in a talk event by the women on International Women’s Day.

In October 2016, with an additional painting of Lucy, the portraits were displayed in the Houses of Parliament, with an introduction talk by Hibo and Lucy, and Beth Kelly who had organised the exhibition for me.

These inspiring women are survivors, not victims. FGM does not define them. They are mothers, wives, daughters, friends, successful career women and campaigners. In my portraits I’ve painted them looking away from the darkness and towards the light. It's been an honour and a privilege to meet them and hear their stories. There are 66,000 women and girls living today in Britain with the terrible consequences of FGM. In the UK FGM has been a criminal offence since 1985. However under this legislation, taking girls who were settled in the UK abroad to undergo FGM was not considered a criminal offence. The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 was introduced to close this loophole and came into effect in 2004. It makes it illegal to practice FGM in the UK, and also illegal to take girls who are British nationals or permanent residents of the UK abroad for FGM - whether or not it is lawful in that country. There is a penalty of up to 14 years in prison and, or, a fine.

In September 2012 I had an exhibition in Walthamstow, east London, as part of the annual E17 Art Trail festival. The title of the exhibition was No-one To Bestow, and I displayed 12 portraits of childless women. I was 42 at the time, single, and trying to come to terms with the fact that I would probably never have children.

Displayed alongside the women’s portraits were hand-written texts telling their stories of being childless or child-free. Overhead, running between and connecting the portraits was a golden thread to which visitors attached their own hand written stories on little white tags with ribbons. By the end of the exhibition there were hundreds of stories hanging from the thread, each with their own unique tale. I also made a large clock face, with the hand-painted numerals getting fainter as they reached 12, the hands displayed at five to twelve, and a loud ticking sound echoing throughout the gallery space - a literal representation of the “ticking clock”.

The original exhibition ran for two weeks, with hundreds of visitors and many discussions, starting conversations around being childless. I also gave a talk about my own personal story and about painting the women. Creating the exhibition, painting the portraits and interviewing the women involved, and sharing conversations with other women who came to the exhibition helped me enormously with my situation. It was like a big therapy group! It also showed me the power of art, how it can inform and connect people. It was a turning point in my artistic career.

Many people asked me to display again as they had either missed the exhibition or wanted to bring friends, so in February 2013 I exhibited the portraits again at the Tokarska Gallery in Walthamstow (sadly now closed).

This time in addition to the clock I also displayed my beloved wooden doll’s house which my Grandad made for me in 1978. It was the realisation that being childless I had no-one to leave my doll’s house to that had given me the idea for the original exhibition.

I was 42 at the time. I’m now 53 and live by the seaside with my husband and our two cats. I’m planning a “sequel” exhibition with new portraits of perimenopausal/menopausal women, telling their unique stories and inviting visitors to share theirs.

The Walthamstow calendar began in November 2013 when I designed and illustrated a calendar to sell at a Christmas fair organised to raise funds for Eat or Heat, a local food bank. Thanks to the wonderful Walthamstow community my annual calendar became very popular and I ended up illustrating eight calendars + a “best of” version, each featuring 12 watercolour & pen illustrations of my favourite places and buildings in Walthamstow - 96 paintings in total!

Illustrations from all the calendars are shown on the left, with the most recent at the top.

All my Walthamstow illustrations are available to order as giclee prints on 310gsm Hahnemuhle textured paper. A4 £40 / A3 £60. 

Some of the original watercolour paintings from the 2014 - 2021 calendars are still available to purchase, price £300. I also have a few paintings which are framed from previous exhibitions, price £350.

For any orders/enquiries please email me: emmascuttartist@gmail.com

Here’s a selection of commissioned hand drawn/painted illustrations for books, flyers, magazines, wedding invitations, and portraits of people, houses and pets.

I can paint in any style, colour or black and white. Prices start from £100 for an A4 black and white illustration.

Please email me emmascuttartist@gmail.com

Here’s a selection of public and privately commissioned murals.

To commission a mural please email: emmascuttartist@gmail.com