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The Window reveals an ambitious new chapter in Natasha's practice. At its centre is her largest work to date — a commanding, luminous work that anchors the exhibition and the artist's ambition. Smaller paintings echo and refract its presence, each bound together by the use of a deep, resonant cobalt blue that threads through the entire series.Natasha’s process remains characteristically meticulous. Finely ground pigments suspended in oil and painted delicately on copper. The cobalt blue becomes both a visual and emotional constant, at times a sharp, crystalline hue, at others softened to the haze of memory.The window as subject and metaphor runs throughout. A threshold between inside and outside, present and past, Natasha’s paintings invite slow looking, rewarding attention with subtle shifts in light and tone that alter the mood from moment to moment...
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In darkness with eyes half shut I stumble to the window, dreaming of the magnolia.The window lengthens and widens into a corridor, inviting me to step inside to take another clipping for myself.Treasuring it, I pull it out by its stem into this liminal space. Transfixing it into paint.This place has depth without dimension, between the real and the symbolic. There my clipping can remain.I desire to stay here in this in-between. To taste, to touch, to dream. To look through this aperture and remember the shape of things now unseen.I close my eyes and waken to the petals loosing their soft touch. Stilled in falling, they do not wilt as they return to dust.The memory of what they are is lost to them for they return into the particles of dirt, and stone I pulled them from once more.
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