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# ABOUT THE YELLOW ART BOOK
- URL: https://www.theyellowartbook.com/about-3/
- Published: 2026-08-26T17:07:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-29T13:08:15.000Z
- Author: emma butler

## THE IDEA

The Yellow Art Book began in 2021 with a simple observation: I couldn't find the kind of Visual Arts resource library I wanted as an MYP teacher.

## THE DREAM

After many years as an artist and art educator, I realised that my dream was to have a studio of my own in a beautiful place — a space where I could make artwork, lead workshops and create art education content.

I don't have that studio yet.

For now, I make art from home and rent or borrow studio spaces when I run workshops. But the idea of bringing these two worlds together has stayed with me.

> **I wanted to bring my two worlds together: my practice as an artist and my work as an art educator.**

The Yellow Art Book grew from that idea — and perhaps, in some small way, is helping me build towards the studio I imagine.

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Creating a mural at the Bronte Hotel in Harare 2025

## THE PRACTICE

I am an interdisciplinary artist and Visual Arts educator with experience teaching in international school settings and other cultural institutions. My practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed-media, alongside years of teaching, curriculum development and writing about Visual Arts education.

The Yellow Art Book brings these two sides of my practice together: the experience of the classroom and the perspective of the studio. 

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Leading an Art workshop at the Louvre Abu Dhabi 2020\. [Portrait of a lady Mikhail Larionov](https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/larionov/portrait-of-a-woman-1911-oil-on-canvas/oil-on-canvas/asset/203303?ref=theyellowartbook.com)

## THE LIBRARY

I moved home and started writing in an attic — rather like the beginning of a slightly improbable American movie about people in their thirties starting over.

For nearly four years, I wrote without earning anything from it. But I loved it.

It gave me the time and space to focus on the things I had never had enough time to create while working full-time as a teacher: resources, ideas, writing, research and all the visual arts education ideas that had been gathering in my head for years.

The Library grew from there.

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Editing The Yellow Art Book Library 2023

## THE COMMUNITY

Teaching art can often feel like a solo effort, especially in smaller departments. That's why community matters so much.

There are already wonderful online spaces where art teachers connect, share resources and collaborate, and I hope *The Yellow Art Book* becomes another welcoming corner of that wider community.

Join a [workshop](https://www.theyellowartbook.com/workshop-catalogue/) or[ subscribe](https://www.theyellowartbook.com/membership/) here

More about me [here ](https://www.theyellowartbook.com/who-am-i/)

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