Gemma Jonker

Gemma Jonker studied art in The Hague and has these past decades exhibited in solo shows and group exhibitions. Most notable about her work is how she is always busy creating art. She often paints on location, but also in her studio. Jonker is also always expanding on her technique and she is truly a master of figurative and abstract works. You can recognize her work by her use of lines in continuity with the whole of the composition. We have a selection of her landscapes, but this is the tip of the iceberg of what Jonker can do. If you are interested in more of her works and her career visit her website.

Our absolute favourite of her landscape is Ootmarsun and her Hortus Botanicus diptych is a prize piece out of her oeuvre. 

Gemma Jonker is mainly a painter, that also makes collages, aquarelles and pen drawings.

Her style is an interplay between geometric and organic figurative art. Most art work interplays with something in or outside the art work. A painting with a sculpture, lines of a field with lines of houses, colour with organic compositions.

Colour always interplays with geometric and figurative style in her landscape paintings.

Her style is fresh, colourful and light. There is always a continuous interplay with lines and colour. A connection between composition is always sought in lines or in colour. Organic and geometric composition are brought into harmony.

Gemma studied art at the Koniinklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunst (KABK/Royal Acadamy of Visual Arts) in The Hague. With a focus on model drawings, art history and design of fashion and textile patterns.

After her time at the KABK she continued her art studies in the path of the Old Dutch Masters in drawing.

For many years Gemma has painted landscapes and travelled around The Netherlands and Europe for her en plein air  paintings. Often this with a group of other artists, especially when travelling to Germany or France.

Art means everything to Gemma, “I could not fathom a life without the fascination and wonder for the arts. Most of my time is spent painting, alone or with others. I am constantly visiting exhibitions and meeting other artists. I also love the theatre, especially ballet." Art is as she lives and breathes.