Nataliia Hudenko

I am a self-taught contemporary artist based in Sydney, Australia, and a member of the Royal Art Society. My practice centres on capturing stillness and elegance in the everyday — still life compositions and landscapes rendered through a harmonious palette and balanced form.
I work predominantly in oil and acrylic, though gouache holds a special place in my practice too, and drawing remains a constant thread running through everything I make. I paint en plein air whenever I can, drawn outdoors by a need to observe directly rather than from memory or photograph. Through this practice I've become an ongoing student of the Australian landscape — its particular light, its textures, its quiet moments. Rivers, in particular, keep pulling me back: the way water holds and breaks reflection, the stillness at the edges, the sense of a place caught mid-breath. Many of my favourite works begin on a riverbank.
Whether working at the easel indoors or outdoors with a portable kit, I'm searching for the same thing: a moment of quiet observation translated into a contemplative visual space, inviting the viewer to slow down and look closely at what might otherwise be overlooked.

2026 Hornsby Art Prize - finalist

2026 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize - fi...

2026 - Nature of Australia - Curated Group Exhibition, Palangi Gallery, Surry Hills NSW.

2026 - Home - Curated Group Exhibition, & Something Else Gallery, Manly NSW.

2026 - Spring Exhibition - Curated Group Exhibition, Lavender Bay Gallery, North Sydney NSW.

2026 - The St Columba’s Art Prize Exhibition, St Columba’s Catholic College, Springwood NSW.

2026 - «Interior/Exterior» - Curated Group Exhibition, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North, Victoria.

2026 - Group Exhibition «Red Art Prize», Red Gallery,
Fitzroy North, Victoria.

2025 - Hornsby Art Prize - finalist, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia.

2024 - Group Exhibition, ‘Breathing Spaces’, The Art House, Wyong NSW, Australia.

2023 - Group Exhibition, Watch House, Balmain, NSW, Australia.

2023 - Group Exhibition "Colours of Freedom," Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Cultural Hub, Double Bay, NSW, Australia.

2023 - Group Exhibition "Love Letter to the Ocean," CBD Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2022 - Group Exhibition «Spring Gives us Hope», Mona Vale Pop-Up Gallery, Mona Vale, NSW, Australia.

2022 - "Australiana" Group Exhibition, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, NSW, Australia.

2022 - Group Exhibition, Creative Space Curl Curl, NSW, Australia.

2022 - ...