“Emma Maiden draws inspiration from a variety of sources, and her work has the corresponding propensity to shift and change before your eyes. Those elongated carved faces have a Byzantine simplicity, sometimes invoking the tribal sculptures of Africa which Emma likes so much - that pared-down formality which was so admired by Picasso. Yet the elegance of a Duccio Madonna is there too -  in that sinuous line which has the power to convey gravity and levity at once.”

– Bel Mooney, writer and broadcaster