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About: Natalie Roberts

MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/surrealmuse

Bio

Natalie Roberts is a self-taught artist who shares her creative adventures on surrealmuse.com, a site dedicated to helping fellow artists find time for art, spirituality, and philosophy in the hectic world of today. As a former traveling consultant, she developed a unique method of soft pastel work that accommodated a lifestyle that allowed for very little free time. Natalie eventually landed and settled in Florida where she lives with her husband. She works as an accounting consultant at a Fortune 100 company by day and is a creative blur of pastel dust and brushes by night.

Artist Statement

In my work, I explore the feminine side of sexuality and emotion. I exhibit the barest articulation of the human body in a deconstructed and simple expression of form that belies the complexity that is just under the surface.


I grew up painting with oils and occasionally acrylics.


During the late 1990s I began to experiment with soft pastels in a small, black, bound and worn journal that I carried around with me during college along with a rusty can of fixative spray. I eventually gave up having to convince airport security to allow me to keep the spray and resigned myself to purchasing a new can each time I found myself in a new destination, which could be as often as once a week.


By 2003, my notable style of bold lines, rich colors, and explorations of shadow emerged in a series of soft pastel illustrations that capture the emotional expressions of the human form.


Exhibition History


2008

"It's a Surreal World"
Progress Energy Art Gallery
New Port Richey, Florida
April 2008


2007

"Lobby Hero"
Solo Exhibit
Shimberg Playhouse, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Tampa, Florida
September 2007


"Art, Movies & Performance - Carnival of the Arts"
Live Painting & Group Exhibit
Art after Dark, Tampa Museum of Art
Tampa, Florida
June 2007


"Equinox"
Avant Garde - Tampa Museum of Art, Hyde Park
Tampa, Florida
April 2007


"Art in Paradise"
Progress Energy Art Gallery
New Port Richey, Florida
April 2007


2006

"Harmonic Movements"
Two Person Show with Gus Ocamposilva
Progress Energy Art Gallery
New Port Richey, Florida
October - November 2006


"Christmas on the Island of Misfit Art"
Bad Art for Bad People, Mirta's Gallery
Tampa, Florida
July 2006


"Bad Girls of Bad Art"
Bad Art for Bad People, Kama Gallery
Ybor Heights - Tampa, Florida
March - April 2006


2005

"Exposed"
The Beck Gallery
Lutz, Florida
July - October 2005

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