Natalie Singh

Mixed media still life with red pot

2011-11-13T08:44:00.000Z

I did this painting as a kind of experiment in newspaper collage - I don't think it's worked so well, but I like aspects of it!

Oil paint and newspaper on board

Afternoon tea with lilies

2011-09-28T12:42:00.005+01:00

This painting was commissioned by a lovely lady in Scotland. She asked me to paint a few specific things of sentimental value to her, and left the rest up to me. I had always wanted to paint the black chinoiserie cupboard I have in my living room, and I thought it would look good in the background behind the lilies, giving the painting an Oriental feel. But painting that chinoiserie cupboard wasn't as easy as I had thought! I enjoyed painting the lilies, although for me, that was the hardest part. I used only 5 colours of paint in this painting - white, cadmium red (deep), prussian blue, sap green and yellow ochre.

Here are some photos of the progress of the painting:

Mother and Child painting

2011-08-17T11:59:00.001+01:00

This Mother and Child painting was painted jointly by both my husband and myself as a gift to HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on the occasion of Christmas celebrations in Rome 2009.

works in progress

2010-09-09T12:36:00.001+01:00

This is what I'm in the middle of right now - my first ever 'house' landscape. I love this view from my son's window looking over the other backyards and backs of the houses in the next street. I'm trying to paint this at about 9-10am when the sun is just coming round onto the back gardens. There's a lot of work still to do - it's hard enough keeping my colours from getting muddy, let alone getting the right shade of grey/brown for the fences!

I started this one about 3 years ago in my living room and have never finished it. Now I will never be able to set this still life up again because I don't have those eucalyptus leaves anymore! Unfortunately I don't have a photograph either. Excuse the moiré - difficult to avoid it shooting at close range.

I have no idea where this painting came from or where it's going... I touch it up every year or so but it tends to remain the same. It's one of those that come out of one's head without knowing why!

Interior with Red Wall

2010-07-23T17:11:00.000+01:00

Oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm

Still life with paint brushes and pulses

2010-06-01T18:23:00.000+01:00

Oil on canvas, 60cm x 40cm

forest

2010-04-23T15:49:00.000+01:00

oil on canvas
50cm x 50cm

one new painting

2010-02-02T11:37:00.000Z

I've finally finished my semi-abstract trees/forest. It's based on the first rainforest painting (here), but as I wanted to express more of the 'atmosphere' of the rainforest, this painting basically has less in it! I want the viewer to experience how it would feel to stand beneath these trees and look up at the light filtering through them. Sorry its not photographed properly - too cold to take it outside!

trees

2009-11-25T12:55:00.000Z

Here is one of my new paintings - one of my favourite scenes of rows of trees on a hillside. I'm not even sure if its finished yet, so have it sitting in my living room so I can see it everyday and eventually will hope to know what else needs doing to it.

sketches

2009-11-12T15:03:00.000Z

Since I haven't had time to finish any of the paintings that I am still working on, I have decided to upload some sketches of my ideas, which are the basis of the paintings. They are mostly landscapes and trees, directly inspired by my surroundings here in the UK. The English countryside is beautiful and tame, which has a completely different feel to the Australian landscape. Some of the sketches are from my imagination and some are from trees in my garden. We often drive to Warwickshire and a lot of the scenes and fields and rows of trees in the sketches are inspired by what we see on the trip.

local trees and dark skies

more dark skies and abstract landscape ideas

trees in my parent's garden in Sydney

more trees from Sydney

fields and groups of trees from English countryside

landscapes at night with lights on the horizon

more trees, forests and fields as well as reflected light

weird landscape ideas

English landscapes

a conifer in my garden

trees and forests

more trees!

more art to come...

2009-09-25T15:16:00.001+01:00

i am currently working on a whole series of much more personal work, which are paintings based on how i feel, how i am affected by the world around me and my response to it, as opposed to representational work as i have done in the past.

please check back here again soon as i hope to upload some brand new paintings in the near future!

rainforest painting

2009-08-25T13:44:00.001+01:00

afternoon tea painting

2009-08-23T20:05:00.003+01:00

just finished this as a commission for a friend!

update: this painting is on the Crooked House of Windsor tearooms website here and is of course hanging on the wall in the tearoom itself!

new still life painting

2009-07-20T20:52:00.001+01:00

still life with chinese vases

still life painting

2009-06-07T20:10:00.000+01:00

still life with squash

still life with cyclamen