• Values

    Explore what sustainability and support look like in this creative business.

  • Process

    Get nerdy about the magic of context, concepts, and artistic practice.

  • Artist

    Read about Nat and her painting philosophy.

Values

Sustainable creativity looks like

A quality piece that lasts. Repairs, and a local supply chain with minimal environmental impact.

Lasting, Natural Quality

Your investments should be as timeless as your style.

You can proudly brag about your piece, it’s no off-the-shelf copy.

Pure pigment and oil, no fillers. Sustainably sourced timber. Expertly hand-stretched canvas.

This masterpiece is here to stay.

Repairs

An original piece will grow with you and your family.

Art is an active part of your life, and your child’s texta mark or the splatter of a smoothie accident is all part of the story.

Nat’s there to touch up and varnish your work throughout its life.

Local Suppliers

Your purchase supports a network of small local Australian businesses who are passionate experts. You’re not just supporting Australian businesses, you’re getting the best in the industry.

Langridge Artist Colours in Victoria, Pigment Lab in Enmore, and South Coast Framers feature in Nat’s works.

Meaningful Impact

This business is owned and run by migrant women.

From community skill-building workshops and made to order pieces, to donating profits, meaningful impact is at our core.

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Process and practice.

read Nat’s process in her words

watch the process

  • Step One - Immerse

    There’s no inspiration like the natural world. Millions of species, a spectrum of colour, a cacophany of noise.

    Sit with me and feel the warm breeze. Soak it in.

  • Step Two - Interact

    This is where my creativity thrives - at the dance between absorbing and emitting.

    Interpret what you feel, have a play. Maybe the warm grass feels pink.

  • Step 3 - Plan

    Wild creativity might need a little taming.

    Start defining composition, value, message, concept.

  • Step Four - Flow

    Time to release.

    With the key elements mapped and structured, it’s time to focus on the smooth flow of the oils.

Watch Nat paint in real time

See upcoming workshops and exhibitions

“Nat’s work and the talent she exudes through her synthesization of colour & texture has

the ability to transcend the observer to a place & time outside their current reality.

As a lover of witnessing the sun rise over water on a warm summer morning, I find myself transported there each and every time I set eyes upon my piece. Thank you Nat, for this gift of travel through your divine expression of creativity.”

Cat Santos, Illustrator

Meet the artist

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Nataliya Daniel is a Australian-Ukranian Fine Artist living and working in Sydney. Practising primarily in oil painting, her work extends to embroidery and drawing in inks and charcoal. At times, artworks are experiments in scale, from miniature inks to large-format landscapes and murals.

Nataliya’s work explores a reverence for nature, with peaceful scenes that offer the gift of perspective and an echo of the visual rest we feel when immersed in the natural world. This transportation for the viewer takes place through a series of interactions within the work: changing light, reflections, and melded pools of water and shadow.

Through deep observation and provenance of material, each painting communicates a distinct sense of place.

From the environments she visits, Nataliya respectfully sources small rocks, plant matter and samples of earth.

Back in her studio, she works these into ground material and mixes them with linseed oil to create her own colour schemes and paints. At the same time, foraged sticks and leaves are transformed into brushes and used for mark-making. In this way, each work becomes embedded with its landscape.

For Nataliya, art is a vital expression of her inner world and her desire to share experiences of awe for the immensity of nature and life on earth.