EMYO

Biography

The daughter of a Cuban American, Emily Ozier’s expressive style and bold strokes may find their origins in her Spanish roots. Her Cuban grandfather, a physician, found his escape from the realism of medicine was his time painting on miniature canvases, filled with the bold remembrances of the Cuba he had escaped, while her grandmother’s hand sewing created dresses with heirloom stitches and lace. Emily’s mother remembers discovering her daughter was an artist at an early age when she created a miniature three dimensional house for tiny-created-of-paper bees. Every school notebook was filled with drawings, sketches, and studies of life around. Her drawing for years and years laid the foundation for the painting that would come later in her life.

Emily is a graduate of Auburn University and she has studied in Italy with an impressionist master, focusing on a method passed down from the impressionist painter John Singer Sargent. Mother of six, EMYO paints in her Tennessee studio alongside good books and french roast coffee. Her children’s book Marisol’s Dress is both timely and timeless, inspired by the author’s own family story, and leaves young readers moved to face hardship with courage and creativity. Her second book Light + Life has gathered the art and poetry her audience loves into a portable gallery they can hold in their hands. “My life feels like an impressionist painting.”    

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