Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
"I have entered a world of connectedness, where wildness survives and I can live in balance with it. I do not feel like a superior creature. Instead I feel a kinship with all of nature, especially the wild birds and animals. The Hudson Valley landscape has given this to me. This is what I paint."
Natalie Wargin is a nature and landscape painter based in Cottekill, New York. Her paintings are narratives, each telling a story of the Hudson Valley landscape, focusing especially on the birds and animals that cross her path daily and the sense of inclusiveness in wild nature that these encounters create. Following a move from Chicago to upstate New York she discovered a completely different and surprising environment. Concrete and highrises gave way to woodland and farmland and mountains. The connection Natalie feels to her new home and to all the creatures moving around her not only places her firmly in the wide world but has also taught her to open her eyes and connect.
Her work is influenced by naturalists and nature writers like Henry Beston, Richard Louv, John Muir and John Burroughs, and explores her personal encounters with nature, birds, and animals.
Natalie received a BA in Communications Design from the University of Illinois. She had a graphic design studio in Chicago for over twenty years, working with both corporate and non-profit clients, designing for product and print. She began painting in 2013 and began exhibiting her work in 2017.
[from:nataliewargin.com/about]
Music: Steve Roach "A Few More Moments"
"I have entered a world of connectedness, where wildness survives and I can live in balance with it. I do not feel like a superior creature. Instead I feel a kinship with all of nature, especially the wild birds and animals. The Hudson Valley landscape has given this to me. This is what I paint."
Natalie Wargin is a nature and landscape painter based in Cottekill, New York. Her paintings are narratives, each telling a story of the Hudson Valley landscape, focusing especially on the birds and animals that cross her path daily and the sense of inclusiveness in wild nature that these encounters create. Following a move from Chicago to upstate New York she discovered a completely different and surprising environment. Concrete and highrises gave way to woodland and farmland and mountains. The connection Natalie feels to her new home and to all the creatures moving around her not only places her firmly in the wide world but has also taught her to open her eyes and connect.
Her work is influenced by naturalists and nature writers like Henry Beston, Richard Louv, John Muir and John Burroughs, and explores her personal encounters with nature, birds, and animals.
Natalie received a BA in Communications Design from the University of Illinois. She had a graphic design studio in Chicago for over twenty years, working with both corporate and non-profit clients, designing for product and print. She began painting in 2013 and began exhibiting her work in 2017.
[from:nataliewargin.com/about]
Music: Steve Roach "A Few More Moments"
