Artist spotlight
Adam Emanuel
14 August 2026
Adam Emanuel, a reclusive Oxford-based artist, creates work that moves freely between the botanical and the imaginative. His paintings draw from flowers, gardens, and still life arrangements, channeling them through expressionist and abstract approaches that feel both playful and deeply considered. Whether exploring landscapes, historical figures, or dreamlike surrealist scenes, Emanuel's work carries a restless energy and vivid sense of colour, mixing folk art sensibilities with modernist experimentation. His subjects range from Oxford scenes to Renaissance echoes to the natural world reimagined—each piece marked by a distinctive, idiosyncratic vision.
EMANUEL. 'Annuntiatio' Sissy, Aida & The Turkey Baster, Medieval Liturgical. · 2020 · 27.9×38.1 cm
Tropicana Flora & A Fauvism Impression and Colour Cornucopia Original Emanuel!? · 2021 · 50×70 cm
'The Mind Mistral' Surrealist Abstract Study Of A Dream, Original Emanuel.? · 2021 · 27.9×20.3 cm
'A BLITZ MIRACLE' St Pauls Cathedral, A Lone Beacon of Hope and Resistance!. · 1992 · 61×43.2 cm
The Dowager Countess Bubliana Von Tythessen-Rothschild De Brooke Surrealist Art · 1990 · 40.6×48.3 cm
EMANUEL. Oxford Halcyon Days, 'Punting At Magdalen Bridge' Original Watercolour. · 2021 · 27.9×35.6 cm
EMANUEL. Surrealist 'belle epoque' · 2021 · 27.9×38.1 cm
Dinas Head, Pembrokeshire, Principality Of Wales, A Fauvist Impression EMANUEL? · 2021 · 45×50 cm
Creazione di Adamo-He's Not Adam He's A Very Naughty Boy, High Renaissance Glory · 2020 · 50.8×40.6 cm
EMANUEL. 'Mad Madam Mable'! - Surrealist Portrait From A Maddening Crazy Dream. · 2020 · 27.9×38.1 cm
The Forest Of Prehistory, Abstract Surrealism in a Colour Collision. BY EMANUEL. · 2021 · 27.9×35.6 cm
پاشرستم Rustem Pasha Opukovic, The 32nd Grand Vizier, 16th Century Ottoman Empires First Minister to Suleiman the Magnificent! · 2020 · 30.5×40.6 cm
Adam Emanuel
United Kingdom