he last time the Emmerson clan had a joint exhibition was some 16 years ago. The children of Rhona and Mark Emmerson were just that ? children ? at the time. But today in 2006, the children ? Hannah, Gordon and Joshua ? are all established in their own right.

Two of them, Hannah and Joshua, will be joining their parents for a family exhibition, which has been aptly named Emmerson & Emmersons: One Family?s Art.

The show opens tonight at the Bermuda Society of Arts gallery in City Hall.

While the show is about the talents of multiple Emmersons, only three will be on hand for the opening as son Joshua is studying in Canada, although he will be showing his photographs.

The Emmerson?s other son, Gordon, who had participated in the original family exhibition, is currently on ?walkabout? in Australia and will not be joining his family this time. Reminiscing on their exhibition back in 1990, Mr. Emmerson said: ?Looking back it was fun. Joshua sold some of his stuff and some of it we have it in the family archives. Hannah, Rhona, Gordon and I sold ? it was a total experience for the kids.?

But Hannah admits she and her brothers may not have been at their artistic heights at the time.

?I think I was in my first year of of high school, so I think I was probably about 12 and I am 28 now,? she said. ?The difference is now, that we have settled into our talents.?

Hannah still designs jewellery, however, now her materials and techniques have developed.

Back at the family?s first show, Hannah was doing all her jewellery work in Fimo clay which her parents were helping her fire.

?(Now) Hannah is doing masterpieces in jewellery and precious metals,? said her proud mother. ?She also has painted eggs to die for and a real range of things to die for.?

Mrs. Emmerson said that the eggs will take your breath away.

Hannah does not paint them in an egg cup, but said: ?I do them in my hands and try not to touch them ? I do one part and then wait for it to dry then turn it around again.?

She has also been working at the Gem Cellar and is allowed to work on pieces of her own there.

?Chet (Trott) has been very kind in letting me do my own pieces on my own time, and on offering advice and design ideas,? she said.

Her brother Joshua?s offering are drawn from recent adventures in his young life. ?Joshua is at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, after his year sailing around the world,? said Mrs. Emmerson. ?His components will be images from his trip around the world ? he definitely has his father?s eye for photography.

?He has put together a collection of his pictures ? the child has promise.?

Photography is not his only artistic interest, however.

?His major at school is art and he is doing furniture, woodwork, sculpture and wrought iron metal work and iron-smith,? his mother said. ?I have some furniture that he has made.?

For her own part, Mrs. Emmerson has done a series of oil paintings for the show.

?I have been working with the Pleine Air group and it has been a good task master to have me go out,? she said.

?I am just showing oils and generic Bermuda interpretive scenes, so that has been kind of fun.?

Meanwhile, her husband will be showing his photographic work, which he said he also had entered in the Professional Photography Show, which took place at the Bermuda Society of Arts a few months ago.

?It was for the first time in my life, in 40 years of photography, I showed colour ? I have never ever shown in colour,? Mr. Emmerson said. ?I have been in shows and they have always been in black and white or platinum and what did the critics say, ?oh, where are Mark?s platinums??

?Like I am not allowed to shoot in colour. So in the show, they are going to have to get used to it, because I am going to be showing some colour.?

He will also be showing a few of his platinums, however.

?I have also been working on a series of old negatives of Bermuda and I have been working on them to bring them back from ripped and torn,? he said.

?I love old pictures of Bermuda because you look at them and see that the roofs have changed or this is the same ? so I?m going to put a lot of those in.

?It is not my work, but I have restored them.?

While the family clearly all have an artistic bent, Mrs. Emmerson said it is interesting how their methods of expressing it differ.

?It is very interesting that in one family we have very distinct disciplines,? she said. ?My mother was an artist, my grandfather was an accomplished artist, we had some engineers, and that has passed on down to Hannah. It is great to see that our children have reached their potential in being competent and accomplished people who have visions of their own.

?And that is the best thing that could have happened.?

Emmerson & Emmersons opens tonight at 5.30 p.m. The show will run until November 22 in the Bermuda Society of Arts Gallery.

Also opening tonight will be American artist and Bermuda resident Dean Walker in the Edinburgh Gallery.