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Australian artist, Natalie Lavelle is best known for her edging strips of (semi-)exposed linen, and layers of colour. At the centre of her practice lies a profound engagement with the very substance of paint. She explores the physical, spatial and material existence and considers those relationships with abstraction. Washes of colour are pulled across her works to create thin layers of pigment, which she gradually layers on top of one another. 

Each semi-translucent layer forms new formal relationships, blends, and associations with the next. Throughout this process she openly acknowledges materiality, perception and objecthood so that there is capacity for experience. Recent paintings contemplate specific colour considerations. Stained with soft hues of pinks and purples, the surface gives the impression of a fading blemish. 

As your gaze shifts through the canvas, you notice the erasure of her paint and its contusion with each weft and weave of the linen. Her practice wavers between human and material concerns where abstraction and monochrome paintings have become the foundation of a pursuit to re-blur the limitations and boundaries of the traditional easel painting. 

Resonating with colour field painters and post-minimalists, as well as the language of early non-objective painting, her early work consists of precise, monochrome geometries embedded together with string. She has more recently worked with colour, staining and spatial considerations. Working in arenas of rich-pigment acrylics and oils, her practice explores surprising polarities such as, the artist's control and spontaneity, and the works' materiality and pictorial illusion. 

Her practice wavers in human and material concerns where abstraction and monochrome paintings have become the foundation of a personal pursuit to re-blur the limitations and boundaries of the traditional easel painting


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All artworks of Natalie Lavelle
Painting, Prussian Blue-stained Vista (Raw), Natalie Lavelle

Prussian Blue-stained Vista (Raw)

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 45 x 35 x 3 cm

$1,694

Painting, Crimson-stained Vista (Ochre), Natalie Lavelle

Crimson-stained Vista (Ochre)

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 45 x 40 x 2 cm

$1,867

Painting, Untitled (Ultramarine Blue/Prussian Blue), Natalie Lavelle

Untitled (Ultramarine Blue/Prussian Blue)

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 45 x 35 x 5 cm

$1,806

Painting, The Earth (at a moment) II, Natalie Lavelle

The Earth (at a moment) II

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 45 x 40 x 1 cm

$1,867

Painting, Crimson Horizons, Natalie Lavelle

Crimson Horizons

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 106 x 84 x 4 cm

$3,198

Painting, Umber-stained Vista, Natalie Lavelle

Umber-stained Vista

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 62 x 62 x 4 cm

$2,859

Painting, Quinacridone Fields, Natalie Lavelle

Quinacridone Fields

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 98 x 83 x 5 cm

$3,973

Painting, Crimson-stained Vista (Pink), Natalie Lavelle

Crimson-stained Vista (Pink)

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 61 x 61 x 2 cm

$2,451

Painting, The Sky (Portrait), Natalie Lavelle

The Sky (Portrait)

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 71 x 66 x 2 cm

$2,877

Painting, Dioxazine Purple Fields (Pink), Natalie Lavelle

Dioxazine Purple Fields (Pink)

Natalie Lavelle

Painting - 96 x 81 x 1 cm

$3,033

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Who is the artist?

Australian artist, Natalie Lavelle is best known for her edging strips of (semi-)exposed linen, and layers of colour. At the centre of her practice lies a profound engagement with the very substance of paint. She explores the physical, spatial and material existence and considers those relationships with abstraction. Washes of colour are pulled across her works to create thin layers of pigment, which she gradually layers on top of one another. 

Each semi-translucent layer forms new formal relationships, blends, and associations with the next. Throughout this process she openly acknowledges materiality, perception and objecthood so that there is capacity for experience. Recent paintings contemplate specific colour considerations. Stained with soft hues of pinks and purples, the surface gives the impression of a fading blemish. 

As your gaze shifts through the canvas, you notice the erasure of her paint and its contusion with each weft and weave of the linen. Her practice wavers between human and material concerns where abstraction and monochrome paintings have become the foundation of a pursuit to re-blur the limitations and boundaries of the traditional easel painting. 

Resonating with colour field painters and post-minimalists, as well as the language of early non-objective painting, her early work consists of precise, monochrome geometries embedded together with string. She has more recently worked with colour, staining and spatial considerations. Working in arenas of rich-pigment acrylics and oils, her practice explores surprising polarities such as, the artist's control and spontaneity, and the works' materiality and pictorial illusion. 

Her practice wavers in human and material concerns where abstraction and monochrome paintings have become the foundation of a personal pursuit to re-blur the limitations and boundaries of the traditional easel painting

What is Natalie Lavelle’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Rothko-Style Artists

When was Natalie Lavelle born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1987