Summer Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts

Have a walk round the incredible Natalie Toplass featured in our Summer 2022 Exhibition!⁣
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Natalie started painting professionally shortly after moving to Shropshire in 2003, following her completion of a Fine Arts Degree and a post-grad in Stage and Set design.⁣
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Growing up in Cheshire, Natalie had a love of drawing from an early age. When her parents opened a florist shop in Nantwich, any unsold flowers were taken home and that’s when she started to draw them; mostly to scale and in coloured pencil-but that was the moment! For Natalie, becoming an artist never seemed like a decision she had to make – it was an inevitability.⁣
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Georgia O’Keefe is an obvious influence, with her use of colour and form of simple objects as an inspiration. Similarly, Natalie was captured by Karl Blossfeldt for his beautiful symmetry in nature and its presentation.⁣
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From sketch pad drawings as a child, Natalie progressed to painting oversize oils of sumptuous, magnified flowers. She believes the scale of her work was influenced by her time working as a scenic artist – a role she relished, and which took her around the world.⁣
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To see our collection of Natalie’s work, visit us at:⁣
📍Merrythought Village, Ironbridge, TF8 7NJ⁣⁣