Born and raised in South Africa, Emmanuelle Capatos (b. 2000) originally moved to the UK to study Theatre and French at The University of Bristol. However, in 2020 she changed careers to pursue art, and a year later, started training at The Glasgow Academy of Fine Art. There, learning the classical techniques of the Old Masters became a lifelong endeavour.

Emmanuelle graduated from the Academy in June 2024. Her focus for the next years of exploration is to further develop a fluency in her craft - to learn a language of realism that captures the truth of a subject materially, and through it, give form to an emotional or spiritual realism that lies brilliantly underneath. She hopes to spend her life revealing through art, the light and beauty that sits so abundantly around us.