Drawn to wind and weather, Geraldine van Heemstra connects to the changing landscape through walking and full immersion in the Scottish Hills and along the coastline. The elements and landscape flow through her, onto paper and into her art, transforming the intangible into the tangible. Her marks are developed in collaboration with nature and expressed predominantly, but not exclusively, in painting and printmaking.

“The practice of walking reconnects me with the infinite natural world. In the shadowland where thinking stops and feeling begins, I work with devices created with found objects from the land, recording elemental intangibility, and becoming a conduit for the unseen. My work is a translation of my interaction with the natural world.”

“Living all the way through: to touching, tasting, smelling and hearing the world. If you manage this, then you might walk ‘out of the body and into the mountain’, such that you become, briefly, ‘a stone…the soil of the earth” - Nan Shepherd

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
Windswept, Winsor Birch, The Little Gallery, Marlborough

2016 
Watercolours of the Isle of Skye, Single Track Art Gallery, Isle of Skye

2016
Musical Lines, The Yehudi Menuhin School, Stoke d’Abernon

2016
Musical Lines, A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street, London

2015
The Spirit of Skye, The Studio, 73 Glebe Place, London

2015
Painting from a rooftop, Dutch Church, 7 Austin Friars, City of London

2013
Exhibition of recent work, Dutch Church, 7 Austin Friars, City of London

2010
En Plein Air, The Studio, 73 Glebe Place, London

2005
A Gift from Skye, Dundas Gallery, Edinburgh

Awards

2024
Nancy Graham Memorial Book Award, VAS Centenary Exhibition, RSA Edinburgh

2021
Intaglio Printmakers Prize

2019
Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2019, (Shortlisted) Clifford Chance London

2020
The Signature Art Prize, (Finalist) Bankside Hotel, London

2019
The Norman Ackroyd Prize for etching

Selected Group Shows

2026
Painting: A Changed Environment, Messums West, Tisbury

2025
Bainbridge Open 2025, London 2025

2025
Moon Things, Paint Spaces Gallery, London

2025
Existence, The Artists’ Pool, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh Fringe

2024
Emerging Landscape Painting Today, Messums London

2024
CIRCLE II, Pollen Collective, Shepherds Bush Market, London

2024
Waterlines, Wilderness Art Collective, The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London

2024
RSA Edinburgh, Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibiton, Edinburgh

2018-25
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London

2023
Changing Landscapes, Wilderness Art Collective, Nine Elms Gallery, London

2022
Exposure, Pollen Collective, Shepherds Bush Market, London

2022 
Reverb, Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh

2021
Tracing Earth, PaintSpaces Gallery, London

2021
Salon Exhibition, Randle White Art, London

2021
Circle, Pollen Collective, 44 Great Russel Street, London WC1B 3JL

2021
Wonderland, Collaborative Project with Singer-Songwriter Kate Ellis for COP26

2021
Materials & Process, Canning Gallery, London E16 1EB

2020
Wilderness for the Mind, on-line exhibition with the Wilderness Art Collective

2020
The Signature Art Prize (Finalist), Bankside Hotel, London

2019
Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2019 (Shortlisted), Clifford Chance, London

2019
Human, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth Common Station, Platform 1

2019
Landlines, Selected works from the RGS exhibition, Morden Hall Park, London

2019
MA Show, City & Guilds of London Art School

2019
Landlines, Wilderness Art Collective, The Royal Geographical Society, London

2019
Extreme Imagination: Inside the minds’s eye. The Tramway, Glasgow

2019
Extreme Imagination, RAMM, Exeter (5 April – 2 June 2019). University of Exeter

2018
Imaginary Beings, Exhibition Recital with pianist Prach Boondiskulchok, London

2016
The BFG Dream Jar Trail, Barbican Centre

2015
Art Gives Life, Brains in Pictures, Duna Gallery, Katwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands

2014
Plein Air Painting, Duna Gallery, Katwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands

2013
In the Light of Walcheren, Marie Tak van Poortvliet Museum, The Netherlands

2012
Drawn to music,The Studio, 73 Glebe Place, London SW3 5JB