natasha isenhour
Natasha Isenhour paints an emotional response to landscape, architecture and still-life in oil and pastel, always in her unique voice. While from a distance a first impression is the realistic feeling of the work, a closer look reveals a contemporary edge where her mark-making controls the impressions of mass and delicacy. Painting en plein air informs her studio work through the on-site study of value and color temperature as it can only be seen with the eye. Observation and a degree in Geology afford her a deep understanding of the landforms and the bones of the earth that allow her to convey the depth and mass of her subjects effectively. Isenhour keeps her paintings hauntingly unpopulated as she captures the emotion of place while leaving viewers alone in their thoughts.
Isenhour has been invited to have solo exhibition at the Taos Art Museum at Fechin House, The Beautiful Lonesome, and will be invited faculty for the Plein Air Convention and Expo, both in 2022. This year Isenhour exhibits for her second year in the prestigious Cowgirl Up! Invitational at Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, AZ and participated in the Borrego Springs Plein Air Invitational in CA. The Borrego Art Institute has invited her to come back for the event again in 2022.
2020 also brought Isenhour a six-page feature in the July/August Art of the West Magazine, Emotionally Engaged, and an article co-featuring Isenhour, Why Pastel is Perfect for Plein Air in Septembers Plein Air Magazine. Her work has also been published in International Artists Magazine, Southwest Art and Fine Art Connoisseur.
“Light turns the land and everything in it into a shapeshifter, it changes it every second. Each of those seconds is precious and has its own story to tell. I want to share with you those stories as I heard them. Every painting is a self-portrait”
Please click the image below to view Natasha Isenhour’s virtual show: Earth and Sky
