Rotherhithe artist Natalie Webb has taken up residence at Battersea Power Station’s art’otel where she will be working on a new series of sketches and paintings continuing with recurring themes of ‘Future Memories’ ‘Human footprint’ and ‘Resilience’, writes Michael Holland.
Natalie will be in an open door studio where you can pop in at any time to watch the artist at work across a variation of mediums. She will also be running some workshops in the studio focused on community and accessibility to art and fashion.
Natalie is an ambidextrous artist so creates art with two hands simultaneously, and mostly when her ‘sitter’ is moving around. She explains: ‘I always work this way; it feels natural to me as I am ambidextrous… When painting I often don’t know afterwards which lines or brush marks were painted with which hand.
‘I enjoy creating live art at events. I love to embrace unpredictability and its effects on a finished artwork. It pushes me to concentrate on capturing the essence of the subjects, with economy of line. This way a finished image is revealed by the way a viewer’s brain perceives what is there and not there and fills in the gaps.’
Battersea Power Station, 1 Electric Boulevard, London SW11 8BJ until November 26th.
Drop in Monday – Friday from 10am – 5pm.
Workshops on 24th October; 3rd & 17th November. Tickets – £10:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fashion-fused-art-workshop-tickets-741701267457
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/741712180097
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/two-hand-sketch-masterclass-tickets-741680284697
