Natasha Barnes is a South African self-taught artist, born in 1969. She has been painting since the age of seven and her natural talent, passion and discipline, led her to develop a profound style in her work and to secure a successful career. She received the British Artist of the Year Award leading to an exhibition at the Mall Gallery in 2017.

Barnes’ dynamic use of colour and texture, created via sophisticated mark-making, evokes a sense of fluidity, movement and thoughts. Her abstract work is inspired by the rich environment and heritage of the African lifestyle. Every painting is a mood, a reflection, a feeling, or an experience, transferred onto the canvas through water-based paint and confident brush strokes. Her subject dictates the flow of the paint and, with that, forms take on an element of the unreal, moving into the world of abstraction.