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Gallery Alchmey seeks to represent work across painting, drawing, photography,sculpture and mixed media. With a focus on contemporary and emergingartists with the gallery featuring work with a modern, figurative sensibility that is emotionally rich and poignant, and also conveying wit and humour.
Gallery Alchemy represents emerging and established artists that demonstratea sensitivity to the conundrums of modern life. With the galleries owninfluences stretching from Artemisia & Caravaggio to Van Gogh, to YellowHouse to Duchamp, Dada, Brett Whitely and Charlie Sheard.
Featured artists often reflect a sensibility for light, colour, purity of craft and ahint of neuroses and angst of modern life that ultimately gives way to beauty. “Idon’t believe in Art, I believe in the Artist”
– Marcel Duchamp
JOANNE SISSON
Joanne Sisson lives in Ballarat, in country Victoria. She studied Fine Art at RMIT, Melbourne and has worked as an art teacher and book illustrator. Her artworks focus on both still life and landscape painting. Both genres are connected in some way to the natural world.
Her current still life paintings, of both indigenous and introduced plants in glassware, depict the refraction of light and the distortion of form as light passes through glass. Jo has accumulated a large collection of crystal and glass vessels, which she assembles in complex arrangements. There is much planning and resetting of these arrangements before she commences an artwork.
Joanne Sisson comments on her work- “When walking through my garden or trekking through deep forest one can feel uplifted by an awareness of growing, breathing ecosystems. I attempt to orchestrate in my still life paintings a sense of growth and movement while at the same time maintain a quiet restrained sense of calm.”
Tulips and Green Glass by Joanne Sisson
By Joanne SissonAcrylic on Canvas
122 x 102cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $490 every month for 10 months with Art Money
Eucalyptus and Freesias by Joanne Sisson - SOLD
By Joanne SissonAcrylic on Canvas
122 x 102 cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $490 every month for 10 months with Art Money
ALISON
MACKAY
Alison has been a practising artist in the Shoalhaven region for nearly 20 years, with her art practice predominantly focused on the still life genre but also including portraits, interiors and landscape works.
She currently works from my home studio in St Georges Basin, Jervis Bay.
‘I’m mostly a studio-based painter and work in oil paint, but my practice has expanded over the last 5-10 years to include travel and residency opportunities where I tend to focus more on drawing and mixed media works.’
Over this time Alison has been involved in: 12 Solo and 2-person painting exhibitions throughout NSW and the ACT 20+ group exhibitions throughout Australia 50+ finalist places in major art prize exhibitions including the Archibald, NSW Parliament’s Plein Air Painting Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award, STILL- National Still Life Award. 7 prize awards including the 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize, Waverley Works on Paper Prize and Fishers’ Ghost Traditional Art Prize.
Peonies (For Nicholas) By Alison Mackay
Oil on birch panel frame
50cm x 50cm
Smoke Bush & Sunglasses By Alison Mackay
Oil on birch panel frame
50cm x 50cm
Dozen Oysters on the Sink By Alison Mackay
Oil on birch panel frame
50cm x 50cm
TASMIN
WITKAMP
Tasmin Witkamp is an Australian artist on the South Coast of NSW. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at COFA (UNSW Art and Design) in 2015.
Born into a family of oil painters, at the historic family studio “Hy-Brasil” in Avalon on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Nestled in the bush high above the stunning waterway Pittwater, Taz has observed the three generations of oil painters (Nada Herman, Edward Herman and Sali Herman) and absorbed the knowledge and discipline to create her chapter of the Hy-Brasil story.
Taz travelled to Japan and became fascinated with Japanese culture. She lived there periodically for 3 years, spending thorough time observing the people and landscapes. She indulged in the local culture, working in bars doing live painting shows at night. Her practice evolved to reflect Japanese printmaking and ink drawing, articulating form with simple, gestural strokes. She learnt to work quickly and spontaneously, to create a narrative out of the composition.
Upon returning home to Australia she rekindled her passion for Australian landscape, particularly around her home on the South Coast. Her most recent body of work reflects the pyrophitic nature and resilience of the bushland after a destructive summer of bushfires. She is excited to be evolving as an artist, and is passionately experimental in her studio.
Tasmin collects knowledge with her travels. Her practice is forever changing, growing, evolving, never laying subject to the confines of discipline.
Education and Awards
• 2011, HSC major work under R. Tarrant “Sisters. Same-same, but Different”. This work was
short listed for the NSW Art Gallery Art Express Exhibition, Sydney, NSW
• 2015, Bachelor of Fine Arts, COFA (UNSW Art and Design), Major in Drawing and Painting,
Completed under D. Eastwood, P. Sharp, P. Thomas, K. Banyard and M. Tong, Sydney, NSW
• 2017/18, youth representative for Northern Beaches Art Walk, community project, Northern
Beaches Council, Sydney, NSW
My work is included in public and private collections throughout Australia, Asia and Europe.
Protea Bouquet by Taz Witkamp
Flowering Gum Still Life by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
Oranges + Tea Tree 2 by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
Banksia Pod Still Life by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
Paper Daisies Bouquet by Taz Witkamp
Marigold Bouquet Study by Taz Witkamp
Flowering Gum with Oranges by Taz Witkamp
Jasmine Study 1 by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
Jasmine Study 2 by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
Jasmine Study 3 by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
Banksia Pod Still Life 1 by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
Oranges + Tea Tree 1 by Taz Witkamp - SOLD
PETA
WEST
Peta West is a practicing contemporary Australian printmaker whose work taps into the sublimity of her surrounding environment on the South Coast of New South Wales.
Working primarily with linoleum, West creates immersive large-scale prints that beguile audiences with their intricate detailing and depth. West’s prints are worlds unto their own, each a self-contained universe, where plants and animals appear in abundance. They are odes to the natural beauty and resilience of the Australian bush.
Prior to printmaking, West was a photographer for over two decades, a medium which allowed her to develop an eye for composition, depth and balance. This initial training in darkrooms forever instilled in her a love for monochrome, as well as the tactile process of working an image out of a medium.
In 2021, West was a finalist in the Burnie Print Prize, Tasmania. In the year prior, she was a finalist in both the Arts in the Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley, NSW and the
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Sydney.
Delilah by Peta West - SOLD
Original Graphite Drawing
48.5 x 19.5cm
$129.50 every month for 10 months with Art Money
What The Water Gave Me by Peta West - SOLD
Original Graphite Drawing
47 x 22cm
Between Two Lungs by Peta West - SOLD
Original Graphite Drawing
47 x 22cm
Florence by Peta West - SOLD
Original Graphite Drawing
40 x 17cm
King by Peta West - SOLD
Original Graphite Drawing
47 x 22cm
Morning Elvis by Peta West - SOLD
Original Graphite Drawing
35 x 16.5 cm
FERNANDA
O’CONNELL
‘I am still, life, even so you are fleeting’
My concern is to convey the fleeting nature of life.
These paintings reflect on the fragility of life and the ephemeral nature of it. The realisation of these paintings are a direct response to the current zeitgeist of political instability, post pandemic mindset and the speed of digital evolution.
The subject of flowers and their aesthetically pleasing forms, vaguely recognisable in its hastened pace, represent humanity in modern times…beautiful yet so incredibly delicate.
I am still, life, even so you are fleeting I By Fernanda O'Connell
I am still, life, even so you are fleeting II By Fernanda O'Connell
I am still, life, even so you are fleeting III By Fernanda O'Connell - SOLD
Oil on Canvas
26.5 x 21.5cm
Price inclusive of GST, or $69.50 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
I am still, life, even so you are fleeting IV By Fernanda O'Connell - SOLD
Oil on Canvas
26.5 x 21.5cm
Price inclusive of GST, or $69.50 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
I am still, life, even so you are fleeting V By Fernanda O'Connell
Oil on Canvas
26.5 x 21.5cm
Price inclusive of GST, or $69.50 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
I am still, life, even so you are fleeting VI By Fernanda O'Connell
Oil on Canvas
26.5 x 21.5cm
Price inclusive of GST, or $69.50 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
I am still, life, even so you are fleeting VII By Fernanda O'Connell
Oil on Canvas
26.5 x 21.5cm
Price inclusive of GST, or $69.50 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
PENNY
LOVELOCK
Sometimes I ask myself: Is my art coming from an emotional feeling
uncontrolled and free?
or have I absorbed enough inspiration to somehow tap into it randomly but with an
unseen knowledge?
After some thought I have come to the conclusion it is probably both. And the more I practice the more each artwork seems to start from this emotional space.
Allowing the brushstrokes to move without obvious purpose but with an intent of some kind. Reaching for the palette of colours indicative of my emotional mood that day, I start to see a base artwork of uncontrolled drips, bold mark making and interesting textures I would never have achieved if I had an image preprepared in my head or on paper. This process then allows me to determine where I head to next.
Sometimes I use these freeform base layers to continue as a landscape or I move into a figurative piece.
As a figurative artist I spend much of my time watching others or thinking about how I feel and how I am responding to a situation. It could be a small moment in time, a seated figure or even the elements to which I respond.
As with landscapes, I prefer to immerse myself in the landscape to properly absorb the emotion of a place. The practice of plein air, so important to collect the raw feeling of a place and also just to be in the wilderness is enough to transport you back there once in the comfort of the studio.
My landscape work has become an integral part of my figurative work. You can see them melding together as one. But at times, I also choose to work in a simplified form keeping landscape and figurative seperate. The landscape / figurative work can end up being a complex process and the simplification is my other side counterbalancing myself and giving me space to breathe.
The Air That We Breathe By Penny Lovelock
45 x 60 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
April 2024
Tea With Heron By Penny Lovelock
45 x 60 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
April 2024
Friends For Life By Penny Lovelock
50 x 50 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
April 2024
Quiet Reflection by Penny Lovelock
Acrylic on Canvas
53 x 53cm
The Flower Shop Cafe by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Oil on Board
44 x 62cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $168.00 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
The Blue Bottle by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
The Wine Bar by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Sundays by Penny Lovelock
Still Life With Cup by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
They Were Wondering How Hot it might Get by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
The Sisters, The Rabbits and The fox by Penny Lovelock -SOLD
Grans Day Out by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
A Slightly Unusual Outing by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
53 x 53cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $168 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
3 Sides to a Story by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
125 x 125cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $830 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
Sky Dwellers by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Sunset At The Beach by Penny Lovelock- SOLD
Budawang in Purple by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Board
20 x 30cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $70 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
Running Water by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
The Mountain by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Twisted Sisters by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Oil on Canvas
125 x 125cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $830 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
White Trees at Conjola by Penny Lovelock
Acrylic on Board
20 x 30cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $70 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
Turquoise Morning by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Morning Gossip by Penny Lovelock -SOLD
Monday Madness by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Board
30 x 20cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $70 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
Who Let The Dogs Out by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
The Winding Path by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
94 x 94cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $420 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
Banksia and Flannel Flowers by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
94x 94cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $420 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
The Road To Milton by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
94 x 94cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $420 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
Pigeon House Gorge by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Budawang Blues by Penny Lovelock - SOLD
Acrylic on Canvas
70 x 110cm
Price is inclusive of GST, or $395 every month for 10 months with Artmoney
