Emily Soden is an illustrator, designer and portrait artist who enjoys working with mediums such as oil, acrylic, pencils, scratchboard and her favourite, watercolour and ink. She gathers a lot of inspiration from nature and animals and you can see this recurring theme in her work.

She graduated with honours from Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advance Learning with a degree in illustration. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she has lived all over Canada, but she currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.