Award wining artist Natalie Ford will be exhibiting her paintings and drawings at the Art On Rotation Gallery at the High St. Cafe 310 High St. Clinton, MA. all of May and June 2009. Natalie is a local artist who is a recent graduate of Atlantic Union College in Lancaster, MA. The paintings and drawings are for sale and a portion of the sales benefit an orphanage in Uganda, Africa. For more information please call: Sheryll Collins Art On Rotation Gallery Owner/Curator at 978-549-5822.

Short Bio:

Natalie is 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 orphanage in Uganda, Africa. A good friend of mine has started a foundation to support the orphanage. Most of the pieces in this show are about this place. I hope that you will be moved by this show and support this wonderful endeavor.