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With her solo exhibition Windswept Geraldine van Heemstra brings the vastness of the Scottish landscape to Winsor Birch’s Little Gallery in Marlborough.
The paintings, drawings and sculptures on show were conceived walking through remote highlands and sailing along rugged coastlines. Working in collaboration with the elements, van Heemstra sketches exposed to wind and rain, at times renouncing creative control entirely to record the forces of nature with drawing devices and wind harps made from objects harvested along the way.
Back at her London studio, she translates these physical and ethereal traces into paintings that invite the viewer to escape the burdens of modern life and reconnect with nature.
“Van Heemstra’s landscapes capture not only the wilderness of her beloved Scotland, but also its sacred and eternal qualities, its ancient forms, its astonishing celestial light, so that we too can feel utterly and truly alive.”
Writes Annabel Abbs – herself a walking woman and author of a feminist exploration of walking in wild landscape – in the essay accompanying the exhibition.
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Event Details
17 October – 21 November 2025
Monday – Saturday 10am – 4pm
Private View: Thursday 16 October 2025, 6-8pm
RSVP: enquiries@winsorbirch.com
Address: Winsor Birch, The Little Gallery, 1 The Parade, Marlborough SN8 1NE
About the Artist
Geraldine van Heemstra is a Dutch artist based in London. External forces of land and water are at the core of her practice, marks developed in collaboration with nature and expressed in painting and printmaking.
Van Heemstra studied at Utrecht University with an MA in History of Art in 1992, followed by a post-graduate degree in Conservation at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, graduating in 1995. After a career in the conservation of paintings, she focused on her own art from 2004 and graduated with an MA from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2019.
https://www.geraldinevanheemstra.com
https://www.instagram.com/geraldinehvh
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About the Gallery
Winsor Birch specialises in British, Scottish and Irish Art and Sculpture from the 19th and 20th Centuries. The Gallery also has an active contemporary programme, representing artists and sculptors who are exhibited at multiple locations, including ‘The Little Gallery’ in Marlborough, specialist London venues as well as luxury hotels.
Winsor Birch was founded by Grant Ford, an independent fine art specialist, advisor and senior picture specialist for the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and former Senior Director at Sotheby’s. Charlie Minter joined Winsor Birch in 2025 after 15 years as a specialist within Sotheby’s British & Irish Art department and as a Director at a leading UK modern and contemporary gallery.
https://winsorbirch.com/exhibitions/43-geraldine-van-heemstra-windswept-marlborough
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