Hi, I'm Gemma.
Thanks for being here.
I've been dreaming Big Sky Art up in some way, shape or form for years now.
It came in waves. Rewind a few decades to childhood and I've always been enthralled by the patterns, textures, shapes and lines in nature. Once I started taking photos with serious gusto in my early teens the light, shade and shadows added a whole new dimension to this fascination.
Even when I was gallivanting around the globe in my twenties, I was always drawn to the small, cameo moments in the wild. I felt drawn IN the the abstract beauty in the rocks, sand, waves - whatever I was looking at.
Fast forward from this point to my time working as a journalist in outback Queensland and I fell head over-heels in love with 'Big Sky Country' as they called it out there.
I think I love this term and combination of words aaaalmost as much as I love the endless horizon and the expansive quiet... I can hear Dorothy Mckellar's poem coming on... oh no, I can't be stopped... "I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!"
I am happiest with a camera in my hand, and outside - by the sea, in the bush... whatever and wherever it may be. There's a clarity in being in nature. And there's a timelessness I experience when I'm taking photos.
I hope to bring this sense of calm to wherever my work hangs. I hope bringing the outside, in, transports some of that "good-for-the-soul" magic to the spaces they are lucky enough to be welcomed into.
