Natasha Barnes | Moonlit Ashes

Natasha Barnes (b. 1969)
Moonlit Ashes
Original abstract expressionist painting

Moonlit Ashes occupies a specific and haunting territory in Natasha Barnes' palette — a painting about what remains after fire, seen by moonlight. The ash palette: pale greys, near-whites, the ghostly presence of things that were once substantial and have been reduced to their mineral essence. Barnes brings to this subject the same instinctive, physically committed approach that characterises all her work, but with a restraint of palette that gives the work an unusual atmospheric intensity.

The thick impasto technique that defines her practice creates surfaces of genuine tactile presence even in this muted register — the paint carrying light differently depending on the angle of viewing, the surface alive in a way that photographic reproduction cannot convey. For collectors in Windsor, Berkshire, Surrey, and London, Moonlit Ashes is one of Barnes' most evocative and atmospherically distinctive works.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot.

Original abstract expressionist painting
Certificate of Authenticity