Visual Art Residency 2023
Natalia Torres del Valle is an artist who works out of her studio in Hillsborough, NC. She is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and a teaching artist through various organizations such as the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Her work is created with foraged soils and rocks, earth-based pigments, and lake pigments from plants. Natalia's abstract and textural paintings are built on memories of landscapes and our interconnectedness with the natural world. Her process often entails discovering what is underneath the surface and responding to the unpredictable forms that emerge. She repeatedly builds up anderodes the image to break down layers of color, mirroring the erosion of the environment. A constant exploration of the ephemerality of a material, landscape, and memory. By recasting seemingly ordinary moments as profound, her work encourages a deeper intimacy with, and urgency towards,protecting our natural world.
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