A woman with glasses, blonde hair, wearing a white shirt, black pants, and white sneakers, sitting on a worn wooden floor against a white wall, smiling at the camera - Gera Dunachie, abstract and mixed-media artist.

Hi, I’m Gera.

I paint from sensation. With aphantasia, my mind works through tone and pressure rather than pictures, and that sensory route becomes the starting point of each painting. Synaesthesia turns language into a palette, often giving me the first tone I work with.

I work on wood panels because the surface can take change. Layers are added, removed, pushed and redirected. Even when something disappears, a trace usually stays. Each painting holds the history of its own making and the moment the surface comes into balance.

My work makes visible what I cannot visually remember. It comes from tones and pressures that stay with me, the internal weather that carries through a day and sometimes into the next.

Before painting full-time, I spent many years in strategic advertising. The discipline of clarity still informs how I think, but the work itself follows a quieter and more instinctive cue.

I live in London and work between the city and a studio in West Sussex.