Gemma has lived in London since 2004 with her current work principally dedicated to unearthing and interpreting emblematic examples of the city’s manmade landscape. Her aforementioned work employs sharp lines and strong colours to striking effect. Besides her “architectural portraiture”, she also paints figurative subjects, though the approach is softened and less analytical.

Gemma was born in Rome, where she later trained as an architect. Nevertheless her home is in the southern part of Tuscany, where she specialised in the restoration of farmhouses, historic buildings and the construction of new hotels and restaurants. She also spent many years in the South of Italy in the reconstruction after the earthquake of 1980, and has worked on projects in the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East.

In 1992 she studied fresco and marbling techniques in Urbino, which she applied to walls, plaster panels and wooden furnishings. She now works on canvas treated with quartz paint, creating a wall-like surface, on which she lays several coats of acrylic paints with natural pigments.

Gemma first showed her work in London in 2005 at the Salon Gallery, Westbourne Grove. In 2006 she was a founding member of the Marylebone Arts Brigade, which organised its first exhibition at the Old Fire Station, Marylebone. Her work was recently shown at the Battersea Art Fair in October, 2008

The Colomb Art Gallery, Marylebone is proud to be exhibiting a number of Gemma Detti’s architecturally stunning pieces of London with her work also available for commission, please contact the gallery for details.