Natalia Graham is Multi Award Winning Artist born in Eastern Europe, QLD-based and migrated to Australia in 2009. While her professional art training was in Eastern Europe, she is a student of rich and diverse experiences. Inspiration for her art includes folklore, childhood memories, great Masters of the past, methodology, travels and routine daily life.
Natalia is mixed media abstract expressionist artist. Most of her artworks is developed in small projects or series, where a detail or a technique that gives an interesting result in one painting may lead her off in a new direction for the next.
Even as a young girl, she wanted to be an artist and her passion for painting was discovered at the young age of 5. At age eight she entered Art School for Children where she studied for six years. In the 9th grade, she went to study at Art& Design College. Full day study for 4 years was spent earning college degrees and sleepless nights were spent creating paintings at home.
Natalia loves using a combination of thick paint, a palette knife and experimenting with different colour tones. She always been inspired by nature, whether it be seascape or flowers, to create something that is a little bit different with a modern outlook. Natalia explorer by nature and her curious personality leads her to new journeys in art.
Natalia's personal combination of traditional painting technique with modern techniques and contemporary flow medium results portals to new modern versions of arts. Natalia believes she is producing something meaningful that may provoke people so that they stop for a moment and take some time to reflect on themselves.
Now her paintings are owned by private collectors in Australia and Internationally.
The artworks come signed/dated with certificates of authenticity.
Natalia saying : My paintings are greatly influenced by modern art and childhood spent in Europe, reflect travel, experiences associated with nature, places, people and sounds, which are intertwined with vibrant colors, textures and lines. This is a sculptural interpretation of the images and emotions accumulated in my life.
In my artworks the themes of femininity, harmony, the joy of life and fantasy. Creativity for me is a way of knowing the world, an opportunity to share my joy with the viewer and jointly experience a moment of happiness, each delighted to be surprised at the versatility of the world.