IMMERSION

Nat Anderson, Ann Rayment
&
Kimberly Klau

OUR
STORY

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

ANN RAYMENT

The diversity of the Australian landscape is what inspires me as an artist.
The colour, texture and contrast of nature is constantly changing and urging me to record. My style is expressive, distinctive and varied. have tried to capture the diverse nature of the Australian landscape by responding to it in its raw and natural state on location.
The immediacy of the marks captured in the moment reflect the raw and rugged features of the landscape. On return to the studio the deconstructed painted memories become collage pieces which form the basis of my painting. Combined with Ink, charcoal, acrylic and pastel, the layers are built, and the scene emerges.
The use of varied line and shapes and the looseness of these, is a constant when creating a piece. I love colour and use it to create the mood I’m after.
All works included are places I have visited and gained an emotional attachment to. Each painting is an individual response to the place
at the time.

NAT
ANDERSON

At its heart Nat Anderson‘s practice is driven by the desire for life long learning and a connection to country. As a self taught artist living a ‘sea affected life’ in the shadow of the ancient You Yangs, the landscape and the ocean around Geelong keeps me captivated as an artist and a seeker. I am fascinated by what Goethe called a ‘delicate empiricism’ – that transformative way of encountering the natural world and the sustained effort to
understand it’s phenomena through the powers of human perception.
My work endeavours to capture elements within a landscape that are both ancient and timeless in a context of ever changing natural phenomena. It is this tension between change and timelessness that keeps me coming back to the ocean, vast plains and expansive
Australian skies. I am often most focused on where the water meets the land – the shoreline or the rock ledge, where the horizon meets the sky and where light finds itself within the ocean. Whilst my paintings can be viewed as relatively literal my aim is not to paint a realistic record of the places around me but rather to document my meetings with the places themselves.
My interest is in immersing myself in an empathetic, persistent and direct experience of place and country. The work is a frank celebration of the Southern ocean and the Australian landscape in which I live – but it is hopefully also contemplative and questions how can we open ourselves to a greater understanding of what the natural environment has to tell us.
This seems particularly urgent to me in this age of screens, the 24 hour news cycle and our obsessions with hyper connectedness.
Nature offers respite and reprieve. She urges us to suspend judgment, to abstain from pretence & analysis and just participate in ‘seeing’. Our job is to simply to lean in, absorb and breathe it in.

KIMBERLY
KLAU

Kimberly often works with burnt timbers, salvaging what she can and restoring life. The community has especially treasured her burnt wood art since the recent 2019-2020 Bush Fires. In philosophising with these ideas Kimberly has
come up with a controlled burning technique to connect us with the land we live on. “As I watch the bush over grow around us, I worry about future dry seasons and the #1 preventive step of controlled burning that is almost too complicated and confronting to take.”
Self taught, Kimberly has picked up her skills from her nurtured upbringing, experience of life and those around her. Now operating a full time furniture and homewares business, Kimberly brings joy and nature into homes with form, function, balance and beauty.
“I view my practice as a collaboration, where as the artist, I accentuate natures creation.
Its twisted and contorted forms, I follow, sculpted by wind, flood, drought and fire. I am led into unexpected dimensions and watch as the final result takes control.