The Chemist's Daughter 'Achos' Print Available

Artist: Hannah Tometzki/The Chemist's Daughter
Title: Tough Guy
Medium: Gold Leaf Embossed Print
Size: 11.5 x 11.5 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: £26

 

Hannah Tometzki works under the studio name The Chemist’s Daughter, a nod to her upbringing in a family-run pharmacy in rural Wales where shelves of coloured pills and glass beakers first sparked her fascination with hue and form. Today, based in a light-filled studio near Cardiff, she creates abstract paintings that fuse geological observation with emotional memory, producing canvases that feel like stratified sunsets compressed under glass.

Working primarily in acrylic and resin, Tometzki pours, drags and pools layers of translucent pigment, allowing each coat to semi-cure before adding the next. Titanium white is forced through wet ultramarine to create marble-like veins, while powdered copper and bronze settle into fissures that catch gallery spotlights like seams of precious ore. The final high-gloss resin seals the topography, giving the surface the depth and clarity of a polished gemstone viewed under a microscope.

Colour choices are instinctive yet grounded in place: ochres and rusts echo the iron-rich soil of Welsh quarries, acid greens recall copper runoff she saw while hiking abandoned mines, and sudden flashes of rose mirror the Himalayan salt lamps that lined her childhood dispensary. Each piece is titled after geological strata or pharmaceutical compounds, reinforcing the link between earth science and personal healing.

Recent exhibitions at Kooywood Gallery Cardiff and The Workers Gallery Ynyshir have sold out, while commissions have transformed hospital reception areas and private residences into calming portals of colour. Whether working on a metre-wide canvas or a small resin tile, Tometzki seeks the fragile moment when pigment, gravity and memory solidify into a lasting record of transformation, reminding viewers that beauty often emerges where chemistry and emotion collide.