Art Fairs
Battersea Affordable Art Fair
World Art Dubai
Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair
Brussels Affordable Art Fair
Amsterdam Affordable Art Fair
Art Hamptons
USA
New York Affordable Art Fair
Melbourne Affordable Art Fair
London Affordable Art Fair
Singapore Affordable Art Fair
Glasgow Art Fair
Glasgow UK
Windsor Contemporary Art Fair
Group Shows
2011 –to date Turner Barnes Gallery
2010 -2013 Selfridges
London UK
2008
Heritage Arts Festival
South Africa
2007
Gateshead Art Fair
Gateshead UK
2002
Interior angle art design gallery
Chelmsford/London UK
2001-2003
Will’s Art Warehouse, London
2001
Ideal Home show London UK
1995 –2002 Art in the Park
South Africa Solo Shows
2008
The Lindsay Gallery
London UK
2007
Zuva Gallery
Arizona USA
2006
Trevor
Victor Harvey Gallery Sydney
2006-2008
Lisa Wendt Gallery
JHB South Africa
Corporate Clients include:
IKEA, WH Smith, John Lewis
Habitat
Laura Ashley
Publication
2015
The Culinary Adventures ofa Travelling Cook
Global Publishers:
Verkerke, Artsmile, Bentley House, Juma , STM, International Graphics,
Ricordi Italy,Brushstrokes Canada, Canadian Art Prints, Selina
Ediciones, Art and Lights, Indigo Art, The Art Group, Hallmark Ltd
Distributors: Atlantic Arts
USA
Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery
Sydney Australia
Artsource
Middle East & Dubai
Shinn Art
USA
Senecio
UK
Natasha Barnes explores different dimensions of color and expression of South African light. She has been working on much larger expressive pieces of abstract art in recent years.
Abstract Expressionism, by nature, has the potential to rouse and stimulate viewers with its use of courageous colours, excitable brushstrokes and non-concrete nuances. Artist, Natasha Barnes, embodies this in her work and her paintings, which are rich in texture, vibrant colour and lavish design to create bright, bold and fun art with a burst of pure energy. Capturing the essence of imagination and emotion, her canvases are a direct reflection of her passion for art – something she realised very early on in life and which has resulted in this self-taught painter’s considerable success.
One of Africa’s most published artists, Barnes is taking the art world by storm and her exquisite work, available all over the globe in book and print form, is, without a doubt, a testament to her incredible success.
Born in 1969 in the small town of Parys in the Free state, Barnes had what she describes as an “idyllic childhood”. Growing up on a farm, living a rural lifestyle, Barnes found that her natural creativity was able to flow of its own accord. “My early years really shaped the person I became. You have such freedom of expression in small towns, as well as the room to become who you need to be– not shaped by any expectations of larger peer pressures of city life,” she says. At the tender age of four, while playing in her grandfather’s study, Barnes realised that art would come to totally consume her life.
Apart from the many unexpected walls that provide homes for her works, she has sold widely all over the world and done numerous corporate and private commissions, artworks for Hollywood and TV, greeting cards, hotels, airport lounges and boardrooms.
MEDIA
Natasha takes to the skies this month on the cover of Slow Lounge magazine, available at All British Airways business class lounges around South Africa. Thank you to Eclectica Design and Art for putting your artists First.
Featured at The New York Times Newspaper. March 23,2018
Featured in China Daily Newspaper 2016