Natasha Law's signature paintings of semi-nudes work as snapshots of the intimate. They capture a moment, whether posed and deliberate or more informal and spontaneous. Despite their monochromatic background, they allude to the intimacy of domestic...
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Natasha Law's signature paintings of semi-nudes work as snapshots of the intimate. They capture a moment, whether posed and deliberate or more informal and spontaneous. Despite their monochromatic background, they allude to the intimacy of domestic spaces, the bedrooms and living rooms her models inhabit. The limits of the aluminium panel function as a key hole, delimiting curvy breasts, lean waists, often half hidden by brightly coloured clothes. Alternating between the traditional genres of nude and portraiture, Laws lines underline her models uniqueness and exalt an almost intoxicating essence of femininity. Executed with industrial material, the paintings require a complex, time-consuming process. Law usually starts with modelling sessions where she photographs and draws her sitters. She then projects the resulting line drawings onto metal sheets, decides how to crop the image as well as its colour scheme. The last and possibly most difficult part of the process starts when she... See less 
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