Emma Salmon is an artist whose practice explores how language, landscape and deep time continue to shape our relationship with the material world through acts of making.

My practice has evolved over many years through work with metal, clay, fire, woodland and ancient craft traditions. Rather than recreating the past, I use historical processes as a way of asking contemporary questions about language, memory, belonging and our relationship with place.

Working across jewellery, ceramics, sculpture and installation, I draw on archaeology, folklore and experimental making to create works that invite slower ways of seeing and knowing. Ancient technologies are not treated as museum artefacts but as living processes through which materials continue to teach us.

My background spans fashion, photography, editorial production and medical herbalism. Together these experiences continue to inform an interdisciplinary practice that values observation, experimentation and the close study of natural materials.

Based in the High Weald landscape of East Sussex, my work grows from ongoing research into archaeology, ancient language and material culture. Alongside my studio practice I teach, write and develop site-responsive workshops and projects that invite others to reconnect with place through creative exploration.