About

My Story…

Natacha Thys is an artist, healer and land steward living on Maryland’s western shore (the ancestral home of the Yaocomico and Piscataway peoples). She views her art as spiritual practice. After practicing employment and human rights law for many years, she began painting in 2011 after a dream seeing her grandmother and flashes of color. She believes her grandmother and other ancestors provide a living presence in her deeply spiritual paintings.

Her signature style suggests a reinterpretation and merging of color field abstraction, cubism and impressionism. Her current work focuses on seascapes, particularly on the liminal space where land and water transition as a portal towards transformation. Though this current work incorporates some representational elements, it stays true to abstraction.

She has studied painting, pottery, interior design and art history with a variety of art institutions and programs in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, including the Corcoran School of Art and Design and the Virginia Art League.

Natacha has been exhibiting her work since 2012, and her work was reviewed positively and featured in the Washington Post in 2015, 2016 and 2020. She continues to exhibit regularly in Washington, DC, Maryland, and New York City, where her work is included in both private and public collections. In December 2014, she was juried into the Foundry Gallery, one of DC’s most established members operated galleries; where she remained a member through 2021. Currently, selected works are represented by Hermitage Gallery.

Artist Statement

My process of creating art is deeply intuitive and spiritual. It is rooted in metaphysical principles about the power of art to serve as a gateway to the higher self and transformation. I work primarily with acrylics, brushes and palette knives to create intricate, multi-layered paintings. Each its own unique world of remembered experiences, spaces, and emotions. These abstractions allow a continuous dialogue between the viewer and the painting, adding meaning and vision, both conscious and subconscious.