Natalie Bessell

Dance For Horses

77 × 65 cm

oil pastel on paper

Unsold

Suggested offer$1,500

About the work

Dance For Horses is an oil pastel work on paper exploring movement, colour and the layered imagery of the natural world. Figures, horses, foliage and abstract forms emerge and overlap within a dense, expressive composition, creating a sense of movement.

Housed in the artist’s own forest-green-painted timber frame, produced to complement the palette of the work.

About the artist

Natalie Bessell (b. 1992) grew up in San Diego, California and has lived in Australia since 2021. She is a multi-media artist, with a focus on painting. Featuring figurative and abstract elements, her recent work primarily involves oil pastels on wood and painted glaze on ceramics. She draws inspiration from her life as a new mother in a semi-rural beach town on the Mornington Peninsula, in the outskirts of Melbourne. Themes of nature, fertility, motherhood, and femininity have pervaded her work both before and after she became a mother. This reflects her more general fascination with the intersection of that which is ordinary and that which is magnificent.

photograph- Bri Horne

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