GEMMY WOUD-BINNENDIJK
IT’S ALL ABOUT BEAUTY
GOLD LIST Award Artist Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk © Art Market Magazine
GOLD LIST Award Artist Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk © Art Market Magazine
Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk is a Dutch fine-art photographer. Her work is inspired by Old Master painters. Learning about art history from a young age, Woud-Binnendijk combines the Chiaroscuro principle and the Sfumato technique to emulate the classic manner of the Dutch golden age masters like Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Woud-Binnendijk, Born in the mid-seventies, is a mother of five and 100% addicted to coffee. She is a self-taught, sensitive and strong artist with an infinite creative urge, who is always full of patience to grasp ‘the other side’ of a person.
After graduating as a Goldsmith, Gemmy studied Multimedia Design.
In 2016 she began practicing photography, and it has taken over her life. Attracted by the same light of the old Dutch masters, she re-discovered her passion for painting and drawing. Using the same chiaroscuro techniques, she creates depth. By stacking colors and color tones, she makes soft and elusive transitions. The combination of the inherent love for people and animals with a strong urge to create, composes contemporary artwork in the light of the past.
Gemmy depicts her talents via a variety of artworks. Whatever the subject, her constant urge for perfection rises to exhibit the ever-present beauty in life, the way she sees it. In addition to beauty, main themes of her work are suffering and loneliness – but also, love and trust. Revolving these motifs, she gives form to her struggles through her artistry.
Her series, “Expected Standards”, was based on an obsession with appearance, which she all too often observes in both youngsters and adults.
GOLD LIST Award Artist Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk © Art Market Magazine
GOLD LIST Award Artist Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk © Art Market Magazine
GOLD LIST Award Artist Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk © Art Market Magazine
For many people, the pressure to belong becomes dominant at a very young age; it is then, she believes, that essential life issues such as being content with yourself and finding your passion are forgotten.
Enchanted by her intense beauty, Melanie Gaydos became Gemmy’s ambassador for the project.
In the rest of the artist’s oeuvre, we see that perfection is a guiding principle. Scenes are always meticulously portrayed and are often reminiscent of paintings by the old masters of the past and the present.
Gemmy presents, like no other, the beauty of the combination of technique and her emotions.
Website: www.gemmywoudbinnendijk.com
Facebook: gemmywoud
Instagram: @gemmy.woudbinnendijk
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