Natasha Day
Natasha Day is an artist maker based in Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk.
After years of combining work as a self-taught painter, and then as an art facilitator, with her career as a Mental Health professional, she began a BA in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts in 2017. This was an opportunity to explore materials further using mild steel and machinery in the 3D workshop to create metal sculptures and sculptural jewellery.
As a mixed media artist she continued experimenting with mutable materials, among them papier-mâché, glass sculptures soldering stained glass, and printing cyanotypes. continuing into her MA in Fine Art.
She currently works with print, paint, ceramics, sculpture and crochet.
She is a member of the Artdepotnr3 collective, The Lonely Arts Club, The Norwich Twenty Group and exhibits regularly in Norfolk and further afield.
Artist Statement
I am drawn to material that is textured, flexible and unpredictable, meaning that I can experimentally manipulate it for alternative outcomes. I like to see what substances can do: a meeting of the physical and my imagination. This is often combined with paint or a drawing and collage element.
I work on themes from the psychological to the physical aiming for compositions that have visual and tactile interest in an organic way, often inspired by the Norfolk coast and the dereliction of buildings or natural materials.
I'm influenced by both personal and organic themes that can be interpreted differently by the viewer, but which usually consist of references to weathering, change and resilience. I use many materials and make 2D work and sculptural pieces.
