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Natasha Day is an experimental mixed media artist, She creates materially driven tactile responses to the shapes, colours and textures of the natural world with reference to resilience, regrowth and found unexpected beauty. Details in nature that pique her interest are the overlooked and surprising compositions that the natural world reveals to us every day. Her practice aims to invite to viewer to notice these in relation to the importance of our understanding and respect for the planet.
If anyone’s umming and ahing about whether to sign up for a cyanotype session (or any other, for that matter! This was the second workshop led by Natasha that I’ve attended), dally no more!
Last weekend’s Cyanotype and Collage Workshop taught those who attended so much; gave us a host of ideas; and we all came away with beaming smiles and a spring in our step (as well as three pieces of work each, and ideas for many more!). Thank you again, Natasha, for your invaluable instruction and advice, and for running such excellent workshops! PS My cyanotype sensitiser kit landed on my doormat today - can’t wait to put all I learned into practice! :)
Brilliant cyanotype workshop! Natasha is a warm, supportive tutor whose passion for her subject really shines through. The workshop was very friendly, interesting and well paced and it encouraged me to look at things in a whole new way. I learned a lot and felt hugely inspired. Also love the fact that I have learned skills which I can continue to develop without having to buy expensive equipment. A real breath of creative fresh air.
I took part in Natasha’s ‘Intuitive Art - Freedom to Paint’ workshop at Artpocket on 16th June 2018, and I loved every minute of it! The workshop was fun, creative, experimental and very playful. I loved Natasha’s approach to painting, just starting and letting the painting guide you, rather than getting hung up on a particular outcome, and the idea that there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, just experimentation and seeing what happens! I felt completely absorbed and ‘in the zone’, and I didn’t want the day to end! I’ve always wanted to be able to make big, expressive, abstract paintings, but didn’t really know where to start. The workshop has helped break down my creative barriers and try something new, and I’m feeling really inspired, I’m definitely going to do more!
Hi Natasha - Sam and I went to the Undercroft today. I really enjoyed your work in the H2O exhibition. Loved the textures would really like a workshop about making work like that.
Lots of love
Lynda x
Dear Chris
Just to say a big thank you for organising today’s fantastic workshop. I
had such a great time and came away feeling quite happy with my work. Just
so different from anything I have ever done!
Such a lovely mix of people. Hope we didn’t leave too much mess.
Please let me know of any workshops in the future especially with Natasha.
Kind regards
Di
Dear Natasha,
Thank you once again for another very inspiring and enjoyable workshop. I think everyone went home happy. There were lots of positive comments and requests to be informed of any further workshops. Do please tell us more about your ‘bleeding tissue paper’ and gelly printing as I think we would like to book one, if not both, in due course.
Natasha is a very inspiring tutor. Her style is so liberating and really does encourage the ‘freedom to paint.’
Well this week end painting with Natasha in Ely was a huge success.
As usual she got amazing results from a group of people , who , in 2 days shed their inhibitions and produced great works of which they were really proud. Each of them said they were so enthused and that they would carry on finding their way into more “gestural painting”.
Thank you Pippa, delighted you enjoyed the weekend exploring end experimenting adding to your art skills…keep going Natasha.
Natasha is a very encouraging teacher and her painting workshop always gives a real boost to my sense of well being. I would encourage anyone to give this a go, especially beginners. Drawing ability not required, just a sense of fun and a willingness to experiment!
Just be warned that one workshop won’t be enough, this stuff is seriously addictive
Huge thanks Shirley for such an enthusiastic feedback, keep painting and exploring x
My pleasure Jane, so pleased to hear your comments, thank you.
Thanks for a great workshop….informative, inspiring AND fun! I’m hooked.
Thank you so much for this feedback, it keeps me inspired to keep doing what I love doing x
Brilliant course thank you Natasha. You are such a positive and inspiring teacher. You helped to free me from years of being inhibited by fears of “getting it wrong”. How great to learn that there is no “wrong”; there is just learning. And what a lot we learned. I had no idea you could create such interesting effects from such ordinary household items. It was informative, relaxing and really good fun. Well worth the 4 hour journey, though I do wish I lived nearer so I could come to more. Highly recommended.
Went to your workshop at Necton and really enjoyed it. It has inspired me to start painting again.
What a wonderful day at your workshop for our group at Necton yesterday! We have all surely moved up a notch and into that other world of freedom and make-believe. Thank you for encouraging me to break out from the corset of reality! I’m now finally off the blocks with acrylics.
Thank you Bronte, a pleasure working with you and your family. Natasha x
Absolutely fantastic day with Natasha. It was relaxing but also pushed you. If anyone is thinking of giving one of the workshops ago, I would highly recommend it. I have done two now and enjoyed every minute of both.
Lovely to hear Sue, you did so well! Glad you enjoyed the workshop. Stay in touch, Natasha x
Thank you so much Natasha for a great course today. My first time painting with acrylics! I am totally inspired and plan to carry on experimenting!
Thank you Lisa x
Love Sedge fen Lindseed series. no.2 xx
Thanks Natasha for the inspiration you provided in your workshop for my canvas Sotto Voce III. It sold yesterday at the White House Arts charity art exhibition so has raised funds for charities Rowan and Practical Action. Can’t wait for the December workshop at Ely.
Thank you for a lovely day. I came home with lots of new techniques and ideas plus being inspired to try something different. Looking forward to the mixed media workshop. What fun the day was! Karen
Your name was given to me by Cindy Gidney. Do you have any space left on Saturday’s Norwich workshop as I would love to come!
Thanks
Catherine Gibson
Thank you for a great Intuitive Painting workshop and, for being so supportive and generous. It was the first time I have picked up a paintbrush in 30 years and am so glad I took the risk to try again.I hope to see you at another workshop soon.
Dear Natasha,
What an inspirational day you have really opened my eyes to having fun with painting and not getting too hung up about detail. Such an uplifting experience I will definitely attend another course Thank you so much you are a great tutor. I have already order the roller sponges.
Thank you for the great Intuitive Painting workshop yesterday and, for being so supportive and generous. It was the first time I’d picked up a brush in 30 years - and I’m so glad I took the risk to try. I hope to join you at another workshop, soon.
I really enjoyed my day with you on the abstract painting workshop, thank you so much! I learnt so much and I’ve continued using the techniques at home. Your work is beautiful and your instruction was inspirational!
Janet, thank you so much, keep painting :)x
So happy I went on your art course in acrylic abstract painting, really hooked, now doing tbis at home, thankyou.
Love your work especially, view from sutton window, lands end and sedge fen linseed. get these on Pinterest and Instagram
Thank you dear Yvonne, I’m so pleased you like them. Thank you for your support. X
I think your paintings are beautiful, love the pinks blues and purples, never realised the fens could be so inspiring.
Good luck with the new website. I really enjoyed our day with you, learning new ideas and techniques about abstract painting. It was a fun day with helpful instruction and advise from you. Good luck.
Liberating day painting with Natasha. Reminded me why I love using paint.