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ABOVE AND BEYOND - BRITISH LANDSCAPE: ART COLLECTORS PREVIEW

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Tuesday, 20 June 2017 to Sunday, 2 July 2017
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Tuesday, 20 June 2017 - 5:30pm

Over 150 paintings, drawings and studies by Natalia Avdeeva.

Natalia Avdeeva is a Russian artist who for the past ten years has spent most of her time outdoors in London, painting and drawing its landscapes and life. Brush or pencil in hand, she is a distinctive figure often to be spotted in Chelsea where she lives and has a studio. Her latest series ‘100 drawings in 100 days’ has attracted huge following on Instagram. When Avdeeva is not in the capital, she is on expeditions to remote places in Britain – such as The Scilly Isles and the West Country - to paint its coastlines and countryside. “Working ‘en plein air’ forces me outside to experience nature and landscape at first-hand.” She explains as she describes the trips - carrying heavy equipment, hiking solo and struggling to capture fast moving tides and scenes. “ I am challenged by the weather, passers-by, the changing lights and temperatures. Yet I find it immensely rewarding.

Natalia Avdeeva was born and grew up in the Altai region of Siberia where she attended Barnaul art school at a young age. With its hot summers and sub-zero winters, she is no stranger to extremes of climate. Yet ever since she arrived in London in 2006 to finish her studies at Heatherley College of Fine Art, she has been fascinated with the British landscape: “ I love the constantly changing hues and dramatic skies in the UK, the tremendous variety of scenery, for example its low tides where natural treasures are revealed and then swept away at the blink of an eye.” She says.

After working outdoors, Avdeeva returns to her studio to work on her paintings. Here she has developed a unique technique that combines elements of painting and print-making to create her increasingly sought-after works.

She is a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and the recipient of both Russian and British awards and prizes including the Windsor and Newton Young Artist Award (2011) and the Royal Society of Marine Artists Young Artist Award (2016). She has exhibited in public and commercial galleries and art fairs across Europe and was shortlisted in BBC’s Show me the Monet’ series in 2013. Her paintings have been exported to private and public collections in Japan, China, Tanzania, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and Sweden. She co-manages Plein Air Contemporary, a gallery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. Over 150 of her paintings, studies and drawings will be exhibited at ‘Above and Beyond’ at Bankside Gallery, London from 20 June to 2 July. They can also be viewed online at www.nataliaavdeeva.com

 

Artist ( Description ): 

Natalia Avdeeva is a London-based Russian artist.  She is a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and the recipient of both Russian and British awards
and prizes including the Windsor and Newton Young Artist Award (2011) and the Royal Society of Marine Artists Young Artist Award (2016). She was shortlisted in BBC’s Show me the Monet’ series in 2013.

Natalia Avdeeva’s works are huge, powerful landscapes with vast skies and affecting vistas.  Each is a piece unique, based on plein air studies and has been created using an innovative technique that combines painting with print-making technology.

Painting these vast skies seems to come instinctively to the artist who was born, and grew up, in the Altai region of Russia, in Southern Siberia where the borders of Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet.  Altai is a majestic land of immense proportions and extreme climates – exceptionally hot summers and winters where the temperature regularly drops below -40ºc.  The boundless skies, the mountains and glacial lakes of the region’s natural environment provided the inspirational backdrop for the artist’s childhood where her first job was picking herbs in the mountain passes for the local shaman.  This natural influence is clearly evident in her work today and she describes her sense of being “in dialogue with the natural world, with the air, the sky.”

The daughter of an artist father and an architect mother, Natalia Avdeeva had a hunger for creative expression from a young age and trained as a painter at the Barnaul School of Fine Art in Siberia,Russia. She gained an MA in English and German teaching at Barnaul State Teacher Training University After graduation she moved to St. Petersburg and worked as a train
ed tour guide to the city’s Hermitage Museum and Summer Residencies, gaining an in-depth knowledge of Russian art. She moved to London in 2006 to study at Heatherleys School of Fine Art where she graduated in 2010 with diplomas in both Fine Art and Print-Making, and received the college’s annual Print-Making Prize.

Since graduation from Heatherleys, she has exhibited widely in group and solo shows and at London and international art fairs. Her work has been bought by public museums and private collectors across the world.  As well as painting, Natalia teaches art and is the co-director of Plein Air, a King’s Road gallery with her husband.  She lives and works in Chelsea.

Venue ( Address ): 

Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton St, London SE1 9JH

Open daily 11am-6pm

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