Emma Boyce Gore trained in the conservation of easel paintings at Palazzo Spinelli in Florence and at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge University. During that time she specialised in sixteenth-century Italian paintings. Following that she undertook internships at the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, where she focused on the technical examination of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Emma has worked in museums and private studios in Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, treating and researching a wide range of paintings dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Between 2014-2022 she was employed at KSH Conservation Ltd where her role encompassed paintings conservation and technical art history. She now works at The Hamilton Kerr Institute, contributing to the teaching of students and interns of paintings conservation, and runs her own private practice.

Emma's attraction to Italian, English and Dutch painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries remains and she is particularly interested in materials and production techniques, especially in relation to resolving questions of authorship through conservation and technical art history.