Natalie Toplass

Natalie started painting professionally shortly after moving to Shropshire in 2003, following her completion of a Fine Art Degree and a post-grad in Stage and Set design.
Growing up in Cheshire, Natalie had a love of drawing from an early age. When her parents opened a florist shop, any unsold flowers were taken home and that’s when she started to draw them; mostly to scale and in coloured pencil-but that was the moment!
From sketch pad drawings as a child, Natalie progressed to painting oversize oils of sumptuous, magnified flowers. She believes the scale of her work was influenced by her time working as a scenic artist – a role she relished, and which took her around the world.

Current pieces incorporate story-like elements, ideas gained from dilapidated country houses seen while out on walks with her dog and the curiosities she finds. These help to create a visual narrative.
Natalie aims to convey the feelings and sense of pleasure she feels while being surrounded by nature, even the simplest of things stir emotions. She wants the viewer to have an experience that encompasses sensations beyond that of the image itself. Therefore, the scale of her work is important. By enlarging the scale, the nature of the subject is intensifie...

University of Central Lancashire 1991 - 1994
BA Honours Degree in Fine Art

Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 1996 - 1997
Post graduate diploma in stage set design.

2024
Royal Society of Artists, London
Paragon Gallery, Cheltenham
Chelmer Fine Arts, Bury St Edmonds
Cloud Gallery, Worthing
Bloom Fine Art, Silverstone
Cloud Gallery, Chichester
Knightsbridge Fine Art Gallery, Epping
Lux Gallery Birmingham
RBSA Birmingham
Generation Gallery, Manchester

2023
Adamo Gallery, Cardiff
OXO Gallery, London
RBSA Birmingham- highly commended
Dunedin Art Gallery, New Zealand
Atelier gallery, Brighton
The Ironbridge framers and gallery
The Lanesborough Hotel, Hyde Park

Previous Exhibitions
Great Northern Hotel
Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon
Quantum Contemporary Art, Battersea
The White Horse Gallery, Banbury
Gallery SCA, Shrewsbury.
Solihull Arts Café, Birmingham.
Landmark Arts Centre, London.
IV Gallery, Cork Street.
Volte Galleries, Wolverhampton.
Gallery 24, Cork Street.
Wet paint Gallery, Cirencester
Le Petit Blanc, Cheltenham
Royal academy, London
Blue Door, Much Wenlock
Gallery Redbill, Chester
ArtLink Gallery, Hull
Fusion Gallery, Jackfield
New Greenham Arts
Mall Galleries
New Arts Gallery, Letchfield
Shrewsbury Museum and Gallery
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London
Birmingham city gallery
Saltburn on sea gallery
Malvern Theatre
Ingo Finke Gallery, London
Gallery 24/25 Cork Street, London

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