Biography

Gemma Kauffman is a painter working with atmospheric landscapes that exist between memory and observation. Her work begins with the natural world — plants, light, shifting colour — and evolves through rhythm, texture, and the emotional resonance of place. Moving between figuration and abstraction, she explores colour as a living language, balancing harmony and contrast through layered, intuitive compositions. Influenced by cinema, music, textiles, and a synesthetic sensitivity to colour, her paintings combine gesture, pattern, and repetition to create immersive visual spaces that invite emotional and sensory connection.

Education

MA, Arts University Bournemouth, 2011

Certificate, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2002

BA, University of the Arts London, 1998-2001