Studio Wolffia is the creative brainchild of UK-based artist Emily Jackson. Championing universal ideas of color, form, and pattern, her practice seeks to channel strength and resilience through unabashed vibrancy. Guided by the philosophy of eudaimonia— the purposeful happiness that Aristotle regarded as the highest meaning of life— Jackson’s works seek to evoke the simple delights of our ever-changing natural and social world.

Drawing from personal memories and every day observations, such as the design on a shopping bag, the texture of fabric, or the colors in a box of crayons, her layered compositions embody the energy and intricate depth found in the works of abstract artists like Shirley Jaffe and Bridget Riley. The studio’s namesake, Wolffia, the tiniest flowering plant on Earth, is a poignant symbol of Jackson’s methodology. Unremarkable in isolation, the Wolffia plant achieves stunning visual impact as it spreads across vast surfaces, an interplay between singular form and expansive pattern mirrored in Jackson’s compositions.

Studio Wolffia’s solo exhibition Finding Bright Places took place in London in 2025. Jackson’s paintings were selected by Arts to Hearts for the 2024 Women’s Edition, and are held internationally in private and public collections including the Deji Art Museum in Shanghai.