My name is Natacha. I have first started arts at 9 years old.
I remember how my family moved back to my native country of France from Germany where we had stayed for nearly 4 years.
I had to adjust to school and at this point I was still speaking fluently German and also French, however my French in writing was not very good (or in pronunciation). I was shy and struggled fitting in.
A kind teacher allowed me to stay in the back of my class when she noticed I was drawing from memory and photography. It all started that day, while I drew a bird form a picture and she thought I had traced it somehow (even though I didn’t know the meaning of tracing something). It was my first time noticing that drawing and coloring “drew me in”.
The journey was not smoothed from then on... as my dad who was abusif and had anger management issues did not allow me to pursue my drawing, or coloring desires. I chose to hide my creations by doodling over and with my ink pen make miniature drawings or faces or landscape and everything abstract in between. Every time I got caught, I was beaten up.
I could never stop even so.
I became a barber and hairstylist and then married and started a family. I stopped drawing and painting and went on to paper making, card making, note making, singing, candle making, and so many more crafts. It was easier to handle while growing many children.
Long story short, after a marriage and 4 children plus a divorce and a remarriage and another five children, I was 20 years later with 9 children and I decided to restart my art passion in January 2017.
I painted and used colors more than ever in my life before. From abstract to portraiture to painterly to realism, to landscaping to intuitive art, my heart seemed to settled with what I call a “coup de stroke” where I love painting whatever comes to my inspiration as long as I have BOLD brushstrokes. I observed and learned from those before me as well whom used that skill too while I obsessively always come back to painting in a way that seems to leave a lot to the imagination.
I am not art “versed or educated” therefore I don’t know my style, however I know what I love and that’s to use my emotions to direct where my paint brush or palette knife will move.
I draw a lot from my personal experience and those whom I learn from, regardless of the past or future. History is often my teacher and Creator of the Universe is the energy I breathe from to create something that is beautiful and speaks to my collector’s hearts.
I’m always willing to transform myself, to learn, to adapt and to recreate myself, which makes me lacking nothing in inspiration.
I hope a glimpse of myself helps you know more about the artist behind the creations.
I called my website “EmotionliSmart” because I believe that our emotions are smart, because being emotionally smart is important for our personal development and also emotions drive our lives.
Be blessed friends,
Natacha with love, acceptance and understanding.