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Geraldine van Heemstra

Work
Biography

Geraldine van Heemstra's practice evolves around her collaboration with the raw elements of the land. Drawn to wind and weather, Geraldine connects to the changing landscape through walking and full immersion in the Scottish Hills and along the coastline. The elements and landscape flow through her, onto paper and into her art, transforming the intangible into the tangible. Her marks are developed in working with nature and expressed in a variety of media ranging from drawing, etching, painting and installations of sound and movement.

Geraldine’s early career in conservation of paintings with an MA in History of Art from Utrecht University and a post-graduate degree from the Conservation Department at the Courtauld Institute of Art, has formed the basis of her interest in materiality. She works cross-media has exhibited widely since 2005 in solo and group exhibitions.

Geraldine graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2019 (MA) and was awarded the Norman Ackroyd prize for etching. She was shortlisted for the Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking prize in London 2019, nominated as a finalist for The Signature Art Prize 2020 and was winner of the Intaglio Printmakers Prize in 2021, and in 2024 she received the Nancy Graham Memorial Book Award at the Royal Scottish Academy’s centenary exhibition of Visual Arts Scotland.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Emerging Landscape Painting Today, Messums London

Geraldine van Heemstra,Three Walks, 2018, graphite and pencil on rough grain paper (concertina sketchbooks), variable dimensions

Geraldine van Heemstra
Geraldine van Heemstra,Three Walks, 2018, graphite and pencil on rough grain paper (concertina sketchbooks), variable dimensions
Drawing

Wind etching (Sanctuary Memories Series) # 2

Geraldine van Heemstra
Wind etching (Sanctuary Memories Series) # 2
Etching