GEMMA AUTUMN
About
Paintings
Gemma (b. London, 1985, She/Her) has developed an approach to painting that involves making decisions from the neurons in the heart and a bodily spiritual connection as opposed to the brain.
Inspired by Eastern philosophies, meditation, ceremonial plant medicine, as well as her work with reiki and integrative psychotherapy, Gemma creates art as she would hold a person-centred therapy session, keeping Carl Rogers’ core conditions for therapy in awareness: empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard.
Gemma is mostly self-taught, has taken art courses in London and studied in Florence. She has lived and worked in New York, Doha, Geneva, Berlin and is now based in South London.
CV
Education
2019-2020 Master in Visual Arts, Accademia D’Arte, Florence
2016-2019 Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, Terapia, London
2014 Drawing and Painting, London Atelier of Representational Art, London
2009 Multimedia Journalism, PMA, London
2004-2007 Classical Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol
Group Exhibitions
2020 ‘We All Have Questions’, Online
Residencies
2020 Studio Program, Berlin Art Institute, Berlin
