Berry Patch Painting

I’m Natalie, or Berrypatchpainting - a name which finds its roots in my childhood, growing up in rural western New York. My mother, not much older than I am now, built a small painting workshop in the front lawn of our family home and called it the 'Berry Patch'. There, she held painting classes for a tight knit group of friends for the duration of my childhood. While there's no longer a little blue workshop out front, she's still introducing people to the joy of painting today, in one way or another.

I came to discover a love of painting later on in life, when a hobby picked up during the pandemic blossomed into an increasingly prominent part of my life. Art has become a way I notice, experience, and appreciate the world around me and the slow turn of its seasons.