The Past Inside The Present, 2022
Natasha’s first work of 2022, The Past Inside the Present is an abstract portrait of a woman. Her right eye is painted with realistic attention, while the rest of her face is composed of vivid, saturated blocks of color. The artist takes her bold color approach even further in this piece, using larger, more decisive brushstrokes.
One is almost overwhelmed by the intensity of the palette—the radioactive teal in her left eye, the neon orange of her right cheekbone. The viewer’s gaze keeps traveling around the face, drawn by the angles and curves created by the swing of the artist’s arm. The colors are bright and joyful, almost childlike, yet the woman’s eye meets the viewer with a wistful melancholy.
The piece was completed in early January 2022, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern California.
$300.00 Plus shipping
Acrylic on canvas, 16 inches wide, by 12 inches tall, by 0.75 inches deep. Ready to hang
