About the Artist

Gemma Hadley is a fine up and coming artist who has been working relatively low key up until the demand for works increased, and who has been successfully selling the majority commissions via 'word of mouth' until now.

A UK artist known for strong textural works, all rich in purpose with a quiet potency, her thematic elements centre on the human form, solitude, obscurity, persistence, and silent confrontation, which serve to reinforce the impermanence of life.

Trained at St.Martins and a talent from a very early age - even exhibiting in her teenage years, her life has taken her on many paths, for the most part away from fine art and into the realms of acting and years of work in the television industry. Documentaries, films, dance videos, the news, people, nature, and war films are all catalysts for her contemporary works.

Every piece that Gemma creates makes its mark. Whether with oil paints, rapid brushstrokes of acrylic, soft pastels, the haze of a captured moment with beeswax, or with a textile or fabric with its own story to tell; each work evolves as if it has its own history. As if it is an historical artefact. From distinctive Caravaggio, to the bewitching works of Giovanni Segantini, to Turner's paintings of quiet turbulence, to the figurative works of Lucian Freud and his thirst for bold, gutsy brushwork, she is also drawn to the likes of contemporaries such as Damien Hirst, and newer artists Paul Emsley, Anthony Scullion, Frank To, who are all a source of inspiration.

"I paint to feel, essentially, to learn. When I'm painting it's like nothing else."

Gemma is currently working towards her studio exhibition later this year.

For further information on sales and up and coming shows please contact Gemma.

Gemma Hadley BA (Hons)