Emma Lopes Art

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Emma Lopes Art

Emma Lopes- Illustrator of nature- Art as activism through celebration of the natural world. Open for licensing, commissions and collaborations.

Illustrations and creations of Emma Lopes, artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Spending time in wild places is her favourite pastime and mother nature is her muse. A core belief which filters into every aspect of her work is that all life is interconnected. Working in watercolour, gouache, collage, and sometimes even marine debris, she uses detail, pattern and colour to focus our attention on the vi

brancy and wonder of nature. Her art is a form of activism through celebration of a world we must fight to protect.

01/06/2026

1st June is World Reef Awareness Day! 🪸🩵🐠
A reminder and a call to action about one of our planet's most precious ecosystems. They are absolutely vital for healthy oceans & a healthy planet as at least 25% of marine life depends on them. They are under great threat, as a warming ocean means that coral bleaching & die off is increasing year on year. We ultimately need to stop burning fossil fuels AND restore nature so that our planet can recalibrate. However, stopping ocean pollution and overfishing can increase the coral reefs resiliencea and mean that reefs survive. There are also so many wonderful coral restoration organisations to check out and support!

Just to name a few 🌊🩵🌊

29/05/2026

Not long to go! We start on 8th June for World Ocean Day with "Ocean Symbiosis". We are so excited to see how you interpret these prompts. This challenge is in partnership with

The Healthy Ocean Coalition is a network of grassroots organizations and people committed to ensuring people and wildlife have a healthy and resilient ocean 🩵🌊💙

8th June- Ocean Symbiosis
12th June- Ocean Superheroes
16 June- Ocean Mysteries
20th June- Ocean of the Future (here we will also make a special shout out to our friends at )

Use the hashtags:

Tag so we can find and share your work!

We also have specific tags to help us find your entries!

FPO26Mysteries
FPO26Future

Our team of hosting artists will be creating work to inspire you as well as providing support and encouragement during the challenge.

Please feel free to share sneak peeks and process and tag us! 🩵🌊

by.johannaexcell

pigs.swim

27/05/2026

You may have noticed that for many many months now I have barely shared any new work. I have been so excited to reveal this project for because recognising that all ecosystems and life forms have inherent rights forms the basis of my world view. All life should have the right to exist, to thrive & regenerate and I'm so excited to see more and more shifts in the law both globally and locally to protect this living planet.

We recently shared the version of the design that includes the logo, which incorporates the congruency symbol within a whole 🌎 The painting also works without the logo and each an every element can be separated.

Each animal and ecosystem has a story and was chosen with for a reason & we will soon be sharing their stories here 💚🩵💙

Photo 1 .zerefos

20/05/2026

📢🌊Calling all you Ocean-loving creatives! 💙🌊🩵 For Planet Ocean is back for it's 4th edition! You can use your creativity to celebrate and educate about all things ocean! Starting on World Ocean Day and with our wonderful partnering organisation we encourage you to get to know better

We are very excited about these prompts and their potential to inspire you and get us thinking about different aspects of the ocean on this wonderful planet!

How to join this challenge:

Respond creatively to the following prompts and post on the corresponding days.

8th June- Ocean Symbiosis

12th June- Ocean Superheroes

16 June- Ocean Mysteries

20th June- Ocean of the Future (here we will also make a special shout out to our friends at )

Use the hashtags:

Tag so we can find and share your work!

We also have specific tags for each prompt to help us find your entries!

FP026Symbiosis

FPO26Superheroes

FPO26Mysteries

FPO26Future

Our team of hosting artists will be creating work to inspire you as well as providing support and encouragement during the challenge.

You can tag us to make it easier to find your work and all support each other too! 🌊🩵💙

by.johannaexcell

pigs.swim

The hosting team will be supporting Healthy Ocean Coalition in various ways through their art and by telling the stories of the incredible work they do.

🌊🌊🌊

16/05/2026

Endangered Species Day... It absolutely bowls me over every time I do a project on endangered Species how many of our most beloved & iconic species are endangered (as well as countless others most of us are unlikely to have heard of, then all those yet to be discovered). This is an artwork I made for
For their Wild World puzzle & everything here is either endangered or vulnerable. Did you see the news that the white rhino is now in effect extinct. There are only 2 females remaining in the world and no males. Scientists may be able to use artificial insemination to allow for a new generation but a small gene pool is not great for species survival & we have yet to deal with the reasons for their extinction. It's tragic 🦏😞

In my son's early years I was often reading stories to him about elephants, giraffes, whales, tigers and cheetahs. Knowing that there is a good chance some of them may no longer be around by the time he is grown.

The good news is for the most part, we know what we have to do... by restoring nature, stop poaching, educate, use our land & marine spaces for plants & algae rather than destructive agriculture & fishing practices...
Nobody said it was easy but we do know what to do...

08/05/2026

Happy 100th Birthday David Attenborough 💚🌍💙🌎🩵🌏🤍
What a life! Sharing with the world, such a passion for the natural world, that motivates & inspires those all over the world to defend these wonders we all rely on so intrinsically.

07/05/2026

Deep (Sea) Awareness Day is today May 7th! The deep sea is the largest habitat on earth and it comprises mountain ranges, plains, trenches & canyons. We still have so much to learn, yet it is far from safe from human interference. Deep sea mining looms ever closer....

The Blake Plateau, a deep-sea mountain range off the coast of North Carolina is an incredible part of the planet, abundant & diverse in life. Except for one section of it... The first test for deep sea mining made in 1970 has left a scar. Over 1/2 a century on & there is barely any recovery at all.

What we do know about the deep sea is that it is ancient, highly sensitive to disruption & needs protection.

02/05/2026

For "Seeds Sowing" I was thinking lots about the homogenization of our food systems. How we rely on a handful of crops and seeds companies to feed most of the world. A few years ago I read a book by Dan Saladino called "Eating to Extinction" exploring endangered foods and the stories of those people working to save them, to bring them back to life AND how this would create a food system more resilient against climate change & disease, not to mention more nutritious & more culturally diverse. From Kavılca wheat from Turkey, to the alb lentil (thought to be extinct until recently) from the Alps, it's all in all a really positive read. It also led me to think more about seed sovereignty. I was particularly captivated by the story of .sansour and her mission to find the seeds and begin cultivating the Jadu'I watermelon the (until recently almost lost) watermelon of Jenin West Bank, Palestine. I recommend looking up her work & the seed library she has created there. I will add this to my "Story of Plants" project. I'll share a little more soon!

Oh wow! What a challenge. It went so fast & I'm.late posting this and catching up on seeing all the beautiful work for the last prompt . But THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! For taking part, for sharing your creativity for supporting each other . 💚🌍🌱

Here is this year's host Team!

momo.illu
artwork
art

29/04/2026

Ocean Glowing- this is another years-in-the making (not non-stop) repeat pattern coral. Coral reefs are amongst the most biodiverse places on the planet. Rich & abundant on life. You may recognise echos of this painting from.previous posts but I finally managed to get these 2XA3 aintings complete and repeating. Next step to fill with life and animate (may take me another couple of years! 😅😅) maybe for next year

I'm loving seeing all the incredible artwork for this prompt as you may know ocean art is very close to my 💙🩵💙
Keep them coming and remember the tags to Help us find you (tagging the hosts can help too!)

🌊✨🩵🌏🌳 (remember to use these hashtags so we can find you)

Here is this year's host Team!

momo.illu
artwork
art

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