"4 Trees"

by Natalie Ford

Award wining artist Natalie Ford will be exhibiting her paintings at the Art On Rotation Gallery at the Thayer Memorial Library 317 Main St. Lancaster, MA. all of November and December 2008. Natalie is a local artist who is a recent graduate of Atlantic Union College in Lancaster, MA. The paintings are for sale and a portion of the sales benefit the library. For more information please call: Sheryll Collins Art On Rotation Gallery Owner/Curator at 978-549-5822.

Short Bio:

Natalie is studying to be an artist, specifically a painter. She feels a personal call to be a missionary. For her, finding places with a need to be seen by the rest of the world is an opportunity. She can make art and call attention to that place by creating works about its culture and people. This process could best be described as "painting journalism" or "journalism through painting." Her works are fundamentally portraits, but they are a portrait of a place and a moment as well as of a person.

Artist Statement for current body of work:

My professor Wayne Hazen often quotes that a person shouldn't paint the sea unless he has submerged himself in it for a week, and so a sea that I am currently submerged in is the industrial district of Atlantic Union College otherwise known as the art department.

When you are greeted with the same surroundings day after day and then one day they change, the old scene somehow stays in your mind and you can almost see the outline in the empty space. In this exhibition I wish to personify the feeling of the temporary state of an object and give curiosity to its placement and history as well as call attention to the layers and passing of time that go on in a place.