Gemma Petrie, Pulling Fragments Together

Gemma Petrie is an artist living and working near the small village of Portmahomack on the Tarbatness Peninsula, in the north east of the Highlands.

She studied at Edinburgh College of Art, specialising in Drawing and Painting.

Her paintings, for the most part, are about memories. She uses natural form, landscape as a basis for her work. Within this space she creates a pathway to memories. Sometimes creating a quiet space and other times trying to follow a thread of memory to recall other details. Creating this space is a reaction to the overwhelming noise of everyday life. The small hidden worlds in nature, for example the mini ecosystems found within rock pools and forests, allow me to portray a representation of protection, to describe the need to protect our families, ourselves and our environment.