Emma Ingham received the Byllee Lang Scholarship and other bursaries, allowing her to study art at Parsons School of Design in New York. For 20 years, she and her partner, Sue Harris, ran Harris and Mitchell, an advertising and communications agency. Now she paints and teaches in her studio on Featherbed Alley in St. George’s. In addition, she teaches art at the Senior Learning Centre for the Bermuda College and at the Bermuda Society of Arts in City Hall. A founding member of the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard, she regularly contributes to art exhibitions held on the island.