About Me
Emmanuelle Le Gal is the Creative Director at Dreamworld Design, her own design studio. She has helped start an arts association in Lynn Massachusetts called Galleries At LynnArts (GALA). Originally from Brittany, France, Emmanuelle came to Boston and studied at Massachusetts College of Art, focusing on a B.A. in Graphic Design. A practicing designer for more than twenty-five years, Emmanuelle began her career as a freelancer for Boston Magazine, Design Times, and Fox News.
Fine Arts has always been an integral part of her life and she has returned to her first love through EmmanuelleArts. Painting brings her peace and offers her a place to meditate on the beauty in the world that surrounds us and to feel an immense gratitude while living in it. She now focuses on watercolors for their immediacy and simplicity.
Painting nature’s most beautiful colors challenged her to grow her creativity and skills. This truly feeds her spirit. Light and shadow are essential components in her paintings. She loves to watch landscape shadows and shapes transform with the movement of the sun. She strives to create paintings that inspire beloved moments and capture treasured memories turning the everyday into a cherished occasion. She works from her own photography and each of her paintings has a story. Most of her inspiration comes from living in Massachusetts and the diverse breathtaking landscape of France, her country of origin. From scenes of France to her own backyard, her work offers a trip around the world.
From 2018 to 2022 Emmanuelle collaborated on an epistolary novel written by Jack flower. The novel is told in florist receipts along with the cards and letters that accompany the flowers sent. There is no narrative, but each page contains a wealth of information for the reader to put the story together. Each receipt reveals clues as to who, what, when, where and why. The illustrations complement each event. Dates are especially important as the story progresses chronologically over time. The story follows the life of a girl born in 1935 in Boston and a boy born six years later in 1941 in St. Louis. They were both born on the same day. The two characters lead separate yet extraordinary lives over the next forty years. You get to imagine what is happening and how their lives are touched by emotions and the historical events of the times. From the depression to World War Two, the election of John Kennedy along with the tragedy of his death and that of his brother, Bobby, all overshadowed by the war in Vietnam. The thoughts and emotions of the two characters are expressed by the sending and receiving of flowers... This project incorporated Emmanuelle's illustration and watercolor skills with her computer knowledge to create collages to illustrate this unique story.
In 2019, she went back to one of her childhood passions, string art. She was able to create an indoor and outdoor flag tape installation following the same concept as string art for the Imaginary Spaces and Far Out Places Exhibit at Galleries At LynnArts (GALA) in Lynn Massachusetts. Flag tape is an inexpensive plastic ribbon that construction workers use to mark out space. It comes in a rainbow of colors. This flag tape installation was perfect for the exhibit; the neon colors of flag tape added a little touch of science fiction transforming the empty space into an alternate universe. In 2020/2021 she worked on her second flag tape installation with the help of a grant from the Lynn Cultural Center and the Canvas The City grant from the Downtown Lynn Cultural district. The project evolved into typography fence art during the pandemic: inspiring and uplifting words were created throuhout the city of Lynn - floating poetry that made you stop and think.
She is in the process of painting two fiberglass cows for CowParade New England presented by Herb Chambers. What is CowParade? A public art event for people of all ages and backgrounds, featuring life-size cow sculptures, which are painted and transformed by local artists then displayed in pastures throughout cities for residents and tourists to visit. CowParade New England will bring 75 life-size cows to high trafficked landmarks throughout Greater Boston (Summer 2023) to celebrate 75 years of progress and impact made possible by the Jimmy Fund community. All proceeds directly benefit Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s efforts to defy cancer.