Working with a vivid palette, Gerald’s artworks combine figuration and abstraction and informed by modern art traditions – especially the art of the Expressionists. Gerald’s paintings explore interpersonal dynamics and suffering, and celebrates our human capacity to

transcend the difficulties which life presents. Pointing to the ambiguities of unspoken relationships, Gerald’s art practice is animated by a strong desire to make sense of the struggles and intimacies of our shared human drama.

“Growing up with violence and abuse as a child I learnt firsthand that life can very hurtful and difficult... but I was also very fortunate, as I also encountered the love, beauty and nobility of many people. These were mainly (but not always) the women in my life – my mother, aunts and grandmother. I lived in a world of dualities; of crude and violent men traumatised by war and the violence of their own upbringing and that of my mother’s family; matriarchal and mainly inhabited by complex, cultured and enlightened women.”

Gerald describes his artmaking as being like a series of responsive conversations with the canvas, where he employs his particular creative process, of creating and organising figures and structures – allowing the purpose of the work to emerge overtime. For him, intentionality is critically important, but predetermination is not.