natasha.lien7@gmail.com
www.natashalien.com
Brought up walking my dogs everyday in my nearby National Trust woodland, experiencing the change of seasons and different colours and the contrasting structure of trees with and without leaves I want to share their life- enriching experience in my work.
I am passionate about drawing, painting and doing etchings of trees all over the world
(including Greece, Jordan and Morocco) : my mission is to depict them in various forms from rhythmical group compositions to the individual textures of each particular tree and structure within.
I am inspired by drawings and paintings of trees in art from Titian, Constable , Corot, Delacroix, Courbet, Shiskin, Cézanne to Van Gogh and Mondrian. I am also intrigued how trees have a quality that encourages pareidoliacs to see random objects in them and cultures to create stories about them.
My work varies in scale and medium; I naturally work on a large scale which suits the complexity of trees. The size of a work affects the way one enters it: I want to give the viewer the sensation of being present. I often work on location for several months frequently using joined up sheets of A1 paper for practical transportation. I transcribe some of my drawings into etchings or paintings.
In today's world where many people are often in a rush, I feel that it is a real privilege to pause and reflect on life, so my work on location is like a meditation of being present.