From rock icons Sheryl Crow and Sarah McLachlan to Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and Saul Bellow, Emma Dodge Hanson's indelible portraits of artists are animated by what writers at national magazines call her “natural” and “refreshing” aesthetic. Emma has the “ability to show that these stars are real people with real lives” (Billboard), whether her subjects are jazz greats like Cassandra Wilson and Joshua Redmon, master choreographer Mark Morris, poet laureate Robert Pinsky or internationally celebrated writers like Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient), Joyce Carol Oates, and Rick Moody (The Ice Storm).