New Artist: Natalia Heathcote

“Each painting is a direct response to the experience of being in life class and making sequences of observational drawings that capture the shifting shapes and colour of the human figure. These provide material for my paintings, where I emphasise colour and shape through the use of line and overlapping glazes. It is the subtle, unexpected colours and forms that attract me to explore this subject, as well as the contingent and temporary nature of the human figure. These aspects are reflected in the scale and format of the circular compositions that further echo the natural curvature of the body.”