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EMOTIONAL PAINTINGS BY OUTSTANDING ARTIST NATALIA PIETSCH

Highly-charged, intense and vibrant, the work of talented Russian artist, Natalia Pietsch literally bursts onto the canvas.

Seen most clearly in her latest abstract works, the artist�s emotional energy is transformed into inspirational and expressive art. This pure energy feeds her creativity, filling the canvas with her inner world and her vision. Natalia�s art is without frontiers, both literally and metaphorically. �I often feel there�s not enough space for an idea. I need freedom to spread, to allow a painting to go where it wants to.� This sense of limitlessness goes deeper and further than the boundaries of her canvas; it�s woven into the layers of her paintings, allowing submerged images to surface and then recede again.

Originally from Russia, Natalia had a classical training, learning basic artistic techniques but it wasn�t long before she began searching for her own style. In the early days, that style was figurative romantic. Using aquarelle, tempera and graphics, her work included the human form and animals, usually in a surrealistic style. More recently she has used acrylic and sand to integrate structure and relief into her paintings, bringing depth and a passion for life to her work. The results shock the senses with rushes of colour, movement and the artist�s special brand of symbolism.

Paintings such as �Explosion� and �Flying Jewels� and the breathtaking �Birds of Bosa� are among the most emotive, along with the inspired �Drops of Life� with its sensual swirls of colour and a multitude of small golden �drops of life�. Hidden amongst layers of colour are small hands, fingers, half formed faces, skeletons � life beginning and life ending.

Natalia settled in Marbella and it�s had a significant effect on her work. She has already made her mark as an artist in Marbella and has clients in Italy, Germany, the Baltic States and around the world. Natalia Pietsch�s work is inspired by her own emotional landscape and her greatest wish is for her public to explore that landscape with her.

For more information about Natalia Pietsch, her Art and latest news go to her Web gallery www.artenata.eu

Website: artenata
Contact email: info@artenata.eu

1978 Academy of Fine Arts , Luise Kimme , Tony Cragg , Anthony Twaites (History of Art), Prof. Walter Biemel (Philosophy)
1979 - 1984 Academy of Fine Arts Duesseldorf Graphic - Prof. Rolf Sackenheim

1982 Meisterschuelerin (Masterclass) Prof. R. Sackenheim
Stipendium �cole des Beaux-Arts Mulhouse - France (Graphic class Prof. Robert Simon)
member of the group ‘Textilkunst Duesseldorf’

1983 member of VG Bild-Kunst (Foundation for Visual Arts/ Artists Right Society)
member of BBK (Professional Association of Fine Artists) Duesseldorf

1984 working as full time artist
member of ‘Kunstverein Kreis Soest e.v.’ (Artists Society of Soest)

My works are an assembly of a variety of different fabric, materials and threads, soft materials, that are combined.

I employ all sorts of textile techniques: fraying, twisting, tying knots, sewing, embroidering, embroiling, ripping, tearing and joining together again. The cloth becomes bulges and ropes by twisting, rolling, winding and knotting threads around.

The shape of a grid or a network does appear by tearing threads out and tangling them by knotting and compressing. Threads - lined up and standing out in sharp relief - work like pencil lines or lines of a graph to give a graphical effect to the works.

Several effect levels merge in different intensity to create a spatial dimension, which reaches from the relief to space installation.

The objects are overpainted with white and coloured with earthy, natural and broken colours to give them depth and shades. Sometimes pearls, wooden pieces of branches or copper wire are integrated.

Decomposed leaves and their structures form the emphasis for the topics of my work, also fissured mountain walls, landscape structures from bird perspective, windows of connections and branches - material stands for vegetable matter.

Website: Textile Reliefs
Contact email: pmss@textilereliefs.de