These works along with a collection from Toronto based Artist, Madeleine Lemont will be shown at Ashdale Gallery in North Vancouver. Join us for the opening night reception, 5-7 pm on Friday May 2nd, 2025 for some new art and a glass of wine.

More information to follow.

 

Background Music

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Anastasia Kimmett reveals a distinct perspective of the natural world and pays tribute to the technology that has allowed her to capture worlds of her own design. For this collection, she leans on her surroundings in the Pacific Northwest which are both expansive and intimate.

 

"The mountains and trees aren't just visual elements but, serve as the foundational tone in the atmosphere. Like background music, the nature here is more than just a setting, it is a visual score, underpinning an integral part of the emotional undercurrent for those of us lucky enough to call this part of the world home."

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Today, the worlds that we experience on large and small screens are often dreamed up in the imaginations of people and are then designed and/or built and brought to life using modern digitally technologies and forms of photography.

 

Similarly, Kimmett designs worlds in the form of 3D dioramas which she then photographs and digitally manipulates. Through this multi-step process these images become the starting point for her large-scale, mixed media works.

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In this collection, the resulting images are loosely, manually translated onto paper, layering monotone liquid mediums applied using a variety of methods and as in early photography, produce dramatic grayscale landscapes.

 

Like post-development colour retouching, Kimmett revisits archived projects, ripping small swatches of colour to fuse to the surface of these new pieces. This step adds not only colour but texture and highlights a tie between past and present.

 

Before a piece is mounted, it is sliced both horizontally and vertically, pixelating the scene that is then spliced back together. Like the individual pixels on a screen or the single notes in a piece of music, these components work together to build an atmosphere. These tiny contributors are not revealed unless one slows down and focuses in, to appreciate the inner workings.

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