10/12/2024
DECEMBER/JANUARY FEATURED ARTIST
Natalee Selwood - "Into View"
Natalee enjoys working with acrylics and texture mediums to create abstract and contemporary works and has been strongly influenced by the environment and it’s strong varied colour palette. Since moving to the mid-north coast the oceans; beaches; rivers and dense bush have been dominant in her work however, for her Featured Artist Exhibition, has created works by revisiting memories of her previous employment as a Water Monitoring Officer where great distances were travelled from Far-western NSW to the Blue Mountains in times of extreme drought and also in severe floods. The following are extracts from the diary of when Natalee was a Hydrographer which influenced some of the works for this collection:
“During times of drought the landscape is barren and the sky is made up of the dust torn from the exposed land. Inklings of grass, depleted of colour, cling to the ground in hopes that the desolated land will once again be given replenishment. Trees along the waterways claw their roots to the banks in hopes of survival.”
“When the rains come, the landscape slowly evolves from the arid dustbowl to reveal the re-emergence of life and growth. When the rain comes as an incessant downpour, that emergence of life is swallowed, then engulfed, as the soupy mud ridden torrent sweeps the land.”
Natalee is looking forward to continuing to explore topics and techniques for the NVAC Themed Exhibitions as well contribute to the NVAC Bi-Annual Art Exhibition to be held in 2025.
Exhibition at the NVAC Stringer Gallery, Community Arts Hall, Ridge Street (next to the Library) Nambucca Heads. Gallery open Monday to Friday 10am - 3pm, Saturdays 9:30am - 12pm. Natalee's exhibition runs until 31 January 2025.
