Feature Artist Natalee Selwood

Exhibition by 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 its 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,  Natalee 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.

Some thoughts by Natalee:

“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.”