Textural seascape artist Gemma Lessinger is mesmerised by the sea and her textured artworks are an ode to the wild, powerful, and healing properties of time spent by the ocean. Her aim in all she creates is to bring your beach memories to life in your home, whereever you may be.
Gemma is passionate about being as sustainable as possible, focusing on re-purposing and up-cycling other people’s waste into her treasure, and aims to use her art to help protect what she loves, the ocean.
The signature in all her work is texture, she strives to keep pushing boundaries in her paintings, creating an almost sculptural nature to her pieces. She does this using these two unique elements:
SAND – using a light sprinkling of sand collected from the exact beach your memory is from. Each location giving different colours and size of grain, creating a completely bespoke look with each piece.
RE-PURPOSED MATERIALS – up-cycling other people’s waste to create another dimension of texture in her work. Creating sculptural, 3D works that you want to reach out and touch. From waste fibreglass from surfboard manufacturing, neoprene offcuts and even damaged old surfboards destined for landfill.
