“A life dedicated to making art for a softer space, to connect strongly with the natural world.“
Welcome
Within a sweet second, my art seeks to connect you into a softer place aligned with the natural world, through decades evolving an authentic style using handcrafted skills in painting and illustration.
Presented here are Fine Art pieces representing observations levelled by imagination, dedicated for those whom in a modern world find bliss in old school design with the intention to enchant an eclectic contemporary living space.
Time flew away since this exhibition in 2020, in the meantime plenty of new art has been made for the next one.
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Orangerie, English Garden Munich exhibition 2020
Natalie Beisswanger.
“My work is the most infinite thing to describe and life has defined for me that art is a lifelong relationship experimenting -
with raw magnetism, seeking daily a vision to listen, evolve, create and to feel art in everything.”
About the artist
Creative Mindset
"My art brain works like a magicians hat.....reaching into the heart of it, pops a series of rabbits, bouquets and doves.Hidden, awaits a sorcerer of lightly peppered charm, ignited by a tap of a pencil, my imagination is set free."
A JOURNEY.
Australian Artist Natalie Beisswanger was born in Melbourne on December 30, 1972.
From early childhood, Natalie was happiest creatively drawing from her own imagination. Natalie’s first signature was a rabbit. This rabbit was drawn hidden under chairs and inside cupboard doors. It was her symbol for connecting into her own world of creativity.
Spirit animals have played roles in Natalie’s work from the very beginning, and continue all the way through to her most recent works.
Natalie’s enthusiasm for practicing art was encouraged by her father Ron McNamara, although he never aimed to become a professional artist himself, even though he demonstrated enormous talent. Natalie observed her father’s habits with plein air painting, and subsequently her own painting style evolved.
Natalie graduated successfully T.O.P Art and Design at Huntingdale Technical school in Melbourne 1990, and lead into further studies in Fashion Merchandising at R.M.I.T into her twenties, she then formed an art group in St. Kilda, Melbourne. Members of this group participated weekly in life drawing sessions in a large open studio connected to the Linden gallery.
Natalie was very much involved in the running of other artists’ activities and group art exhibitions at this time, including an art residence working under the supervision of a reputable art restorer, Dr. Edmund Valentin in Hawthorn, Melbourne.
She also lived and worked in Florence, Italy for two years, developing a painting portfolio which was inspired from roaming the world seeking knowledge & sampling a diversity of languages and cultures.
She then moved to Munich, Germany in 2002. Natalie established herself from the beginning with an art studio and began proactively taking on commissions for paintings and illustrations, for a worldwide base of collectors. Clients are choosing art pieces based on her private portfolio of landscapes, portraits and animals in a variety of mediums.
In recent years, inspired by her own children, Natalie has passionately written and directed several pantomimes for children’s theatre groups, also taking on work involving painting magnificent scenery for theatre backdrops as well as the making of ornate costumes and set designing. Natalie continues to reside close by the inspirational English Garden in Munich, with her native German husband Rolf and their two daughters Frida and Grace.
Bloom & Flow are two lively elements of continuity.
About the Exhibition
Welcome to the Bloom & Flow exhibition in the Englischer Garten Orangerie, opening October 15 - 25, 2020.
Presenting works on paper introducing a solo exhibition by an Australian poet-painter and paper sculptor Natalie Beisswanger.
Works inspired by German baroque culture in the midst of contemporary 2020.
About the diversity of work.
A natural sense of baroque beauty & style. Feel for the feminine, the playful, the innocent, the child, the female observer – present, open, inviting and joyous.
Natalie’s works are intimate observations - people, places, beautiful inanimate objects – exquisite observations of beauty with true creative connection and exploration – conveyed in a mix of mediums from illustrative series of works all of which begin with a light touch of a pencil inviting a flow of originality - moving into oils, acrylics, water colours, pastels, ink paintings , eventually arriving reaching a milestone developing her signature with unique flower collaging illustration & design work.
Alongside making art, a constant focus on character development using photography to create a narrative body of work, leading into storytelling with mixed media film making, advancing forward into 3D innate paper sculptures for costumes, and writing character studies related to theatre projects.
Present, past, striking future tense, Denhamlily is a unique name - inspiring creative thinking and rising above adversity; a trademark name for creative work by Natalie since 1997, long before hashtags and instagram.