Melbourne artists, Raymond and Vakras take us on a journey of the surreal and the fantastic. The paintings explore the rich imaginative inner world of each artist and highlight two separate yet cohesive bodies of work.

The title Amalgam alludes to a certain strength and complexity gained from the mixing of two or more separate elements. The combining and recombining forms into something else altogether.

Raymond tends to juxtapose the human form with mechanistic or other world scapes, evoking erotic, dreamlike and mythological associations. Vakras utilises the human form, in a much grittier, visceral manner, deforming and recombining until humanity becomes inseparable from the elements that surround it.

In true surrealistic style this exhibition confronts the viewer head on and challenges the viewer's inner world of reasonableness and "normality". Raymond and Vakras are definitely not interested in acceptable social or cultural vignettes, only vignettes of their own imagination. However, technique is not abandoned at the expense of expression and the paintings of both are meticulous in form and detail.

Both are passionately committed to their style of art.

Our exhibition at 4 cats Gallery - works were rotated in the window display. My work features top, Lee-Anne's, bottom

Our press release garnered a review in the local paper

The art of Lee-Anne Raymond can be seen here