NAT

A feeling of tranquility comes over the viewer of NAT’s understated yet powerful paintings. She often presents natural objects, such as shells, beans, pebbles, and flowers against abstract backgrounds as she explores color and composition. Other works appear as if they were framed by a second canvas slightly turned away. The common element is that NAT does not force an interpretation on her works, but allows her objects as they present themselves in her created space to speak for themselves. There is also a palpable complexity to the shading, tones and compositional choices, and the experiments with the canvas and its dimensions.

Although she does much of her work with abstract backgrounds, there is also a strong personal aspect to these works, which are explorations in both color and emotional affect. NAT has stated that she hopes to invoke simple responses to her art; to achieve this, she has done the artist’s necessary work and created powerful, silent portraits of emotional states.