Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk

Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk is a Dutch contemporary artist.

Her creative path began with liquid pigments and a brush, but, as life often does, her path took her away from painting. In claiming space for her creative practice, Gemmy picked up a camera and started experimenting. “This became a way for me to paint again” Through the manipulation of light and pixels, Gemmy began creating work that exists somewhere in-between painting and photography.

The lighting has become an aesthetic that layers velvet colors across a canvas of deep shadow and glinting highlights- to create an image full of shadow and light with a beautiful stillness in-between. “Beauty, for me, is to create an image where all the elements melt and then come together solidly.

To tell a story using lines, light, color, and the contrast between them.” Led by her intuition and an obsession to create; as if she was moving liquid pigments on a canvas, For Gemmy, each detail is lovingly obsessed over and refined- from the backdrops that she generally paints herself to the costumes, set building, styling, and post-production.

Gemmy’s artworks become a depiction of real things not entirely grounded in reality. Each of her painterly photographs expresses a beautiful stillness,...

Graduated in gold and silver smithing.
Multimedia design.
self-taught professional photographer

2024 Solo Warnars&Warnars Naarden
2024 Warnars & Warnars Haarlem
2023 Mpv Gallery
2023 AAF Amsterdam
2023 Photo London
2023 Kunstrai Amsterdam
2023 Haute Photographie Rotterdam
2023 Naarden art fair
2023 AAF Brussel
2023 Absolute Art Gallery
2023 Moya Museum
2022 Solo Warnars&Warnars Haarlem
2022 Pan Amsterdam
2022 AAF Amsterdam
2022 AAF Brussel
2022 Fulda Design&Dynastie
2022 Haute Photographie Amsterdam
2022 Solo Upon Walls Sweden
2021 Masterly Den Hague
2021 Solo Warnars & Warnars
2020 Lishui Photogtaphy Festival
2020 Art Palm Beach
2016 Image Nation Paris