Natasha Wein is a self-taught artist, writer, and small-business owner raised in the San Francisco Bay Area now working out of Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
She works by series, creating narrative-driven art exhibitions. Her process is founded on intuition, projection, and analysis, processing the dialogue between abstraction and language to study themes of liminality and transition, development and interference, connection and isolation, fragmentation and reconstruction, injury and mending, conflicted desires, and resilience. She helps artists of all ages find their voice and take up their power by telling their stories through abstract painting.
She primarily works with acrylic, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper and canvas. She experiments with different ways to leave impressions, including using ergonomic movements as a guide to making marks with her feet.
Her work is influenced by psychodynamic theory, anatomy, nature, STEM-related subjects, her bicoastal and New Zealand roots, and her experience living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
When she’s not creating, Natasha enjoys cooking, reading, meditating, swimming in wild cold water, comedy, training youth soccer players, and spending time with her pet parrot, Pluto. She teaches process-focused abstract art (with a storytelling component) as well as resin workshops and is available to work 1:1 with students of all ages and at any level.