Joey Embers a Journey Home
  • Portfolio
    • Plein Air Painting
    • Life Drawing and Painting
    • Rooms of the Interior >
      • Shedding Light
      • Fly on the Wall
      • An Open Window
      • Finding Balance
      • Chair in the Attic
      • Yellow Chair
      • Lamp and Yellow Chair
    • Roaming House: book project >
      • Book Project >
        • Finding my Path
        • Steal the Night
        • Light House
        • Around we Go
        • Family Garden
        • Alignment
        • Together
        • Waves of Change
        • Teach
        • Rise and Shine
        • My Voice
        • Weather the Storm
        • Stand Tall
        • Tethered Beneath the Bloom
        • Echoes of the Sun
      • Practice in Place >
        • Red Barn Residency
  • Exhibitions
    • Mystery, Magic, and the Macabre Exhibition
    • Stems Plein-Air 2024
    • Bold is Back
    • SVAFC Art Show 2024
    • Matryoshka Tattoo
    • | The Clayworks at Disability Supports
    • Roy G. Biv: Color Defined
  • About
    • Joey Embers | Artist Statement
    • Resume
    • Press & Media
  • Join the Journey
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    • Saatchi Gallery
  • Contact

Artist Statement

I paint to translate what I notice: interior spaces, time, memory, and the quiet electricity of being human.

Why I Make Work

Whether I’m working with paint or exploring other mediums, my objective stays the same: to communicate my distinct perspective and act as a conduit between the viewer and the rich tapestry of nature and human experience.

I want the work to be a catalyst for dialogue — something that fosters curiosity and awakens a shared sense of wonder about our journey through life.

What I’m Chasing

  • Interior spaces as emotional architecture — rooms that hold echoes.
  • Time as a presence — how light, repetition, and ritual shape us.
  • Perception — the gap between what’s seen and what’s felt.
  • Color as language — a mood, a bruise, a hymn, a warning.

“I paint because I have to. I lose myself in the mixing of colors and find a shadow of my existence in the application of paint. I am a painter.”

How the Work Functions

I build paintings like witnesses — layered, revised, sometimes fought for. I’m drawn to the moment where a scene stops being an image and becomes a feeling: the kind that lingers after you leave the room.

Invitation

If a piece feels like it’s looking back at you, that’s the point.
Contact me or explore the work through Roaming House.

  • Portfolio
    • Plein Air Painting
    • Life Drawing and Painting
    • Rooms of the Interior >
      • Shedding Light
      • Fly on the Wall
      • An Open Window
      • Finding Balance
      • Chair in the Attic
      • Yellow Chair
      • Lamp and Yellow Chair
    • Roaming House: book project >
      • Book Project >
        • Finding my Path
        • Steal the Night
        • Light House
        • Around we Go
        • Family Garden
        • Alignment
        • Together
        • Waves of Change
        • Teach
        • Rise and Shine
        • My Voice
        • Weather the Storm
        • Stand Tall
        • Tethered Beneath the Bloom
        • Echoes of the Sun
      • Practice in Place >
        • Red Barn Residency
  • Exhibitions
    • Mystery, Magic, and the Macabre Exhibition
    • Stems Plein-Air 2024
    • Bold is Back
    • SVAFC Art Show 2024
    • Matryoshka Tattoo
    • | The Clayworks at Disability Supports
    • Roy G. Biv: Color Defined
  • About
    • Joey Embers | Artist Statement
    • Resume
    • Press & Media
  • Join the Journey
    • Patreon
    • Saatchi Gallery
  • Contact