Hi, I’m Gera.

I paint from sensation, not from mental images. Because of aphantasia (a neurological condition), I cannot picture scenes in my mind. Memory arrives as pressure, temperature or a colour-tone.

My synaesthesia (another neurological condition) is the opposite of that limitation. It gives emotions a clear colour or tone, and often this becomes the first thing I work with. It is the part of my brain that opens the door when imagination stays blank.

I work mainly on wood panels because they can take many changes. I build, remove, sand back and shift direction. Even when I cover something, a trace usually remains. The surface becomes a record of decisions, mistakes, corrections and the moments where something insists on returning. This feels close to how memory functions for me. It does not replay as a picture but stays as a mark inside the body.

Before becoming a full-time artist, I spent many years in the advertising industry. That background still influences me: structure, clear thinking and a direct approach to ideas. Painting gives me something different. It allows me to follow an internal signal instead of a brief.

My goal is simple: to make something visible that I cannot visualise. My art comes from feelings that stay with me and shape my day, my sense of the past and sometimes the direction ahead.

People often ask how I see them if I cannot picture faces. The truth is, I sense people through tone, colour and the impression they leave. Some people feel warm and matte, others sharp or bright. This way of sensing often enters the work naturally. I live and work in London, following the first inner cue until it settles into a final form.