Natalie resides in Baltimore. She received a Bachelors degree in Fine Art at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005. While her personal artwork is fine art, she respects the craft and technical aspects of decorative art. She works as a faux/decorative painter and has begun to incorporate different decorative finishes in her own work. Natalie loves traveling, cooking, thrift shops and being in the outdoors.
Currently, Natalie creates multi-media paintings that tackle the roles of femininity in the modern world. Her inspiration comes from observations and personal experiences of how women are portrayed throughout the media such as fashion magazines, advertisements and “reality” television shows. Her paintings combine symbolism and literalism to instigate and challenge the viewer, contemplating the expectations of what the “ideal” woman is.
While each piece boasts in vivid color and bold outlines, there also lies sadness in them. The women she paints are beautiful, but most seem lost with blank stares and stiff body language. Some of Natalie’s work shows the moment of judgment, the harsh vulnerability but also the eagerness to please. They depict the “final presentation” of women. It is about the moment (that some women live for) when they finally reveal how good they look in a new outfit or that fifty-dollar lipstick. Some of these paintings are from the subject’s perspective, her fantasy of unveiling her beauty. At the same time, the artist has painted her own judgments about the subject. Natalie’s artwork is not a protest of fashion, lipstick and everything feminine. On the contrary she aims to celebrate the beauty of women and fashion with bright colors and symmetric compositions, mocking shrines, and religious iconography.
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