Natalie Piper graduated from the Ontario College of Art and was instrumental, as committee member, in assisting its shift to a university. She also holds a master’s degree in Printmaking from Maidstone, Kent and taught for years at the institution in printmaking, bookbinding and life drawing. Natalie was the first woman digital illustrator for Getty Images in Camden, London and went on to start her own company, Art Division, a web and graphic design company in Wimbledon, UK. As a visual artist, she creates in digital new media and, after years of a successful design career in the UK, she has returned to Canada and to developing her art practice. She continues to work as a graphic designer, digital artist and web designer in Inkfly, her own Canadian company.
‘I find the complications and complexity of life fascinating. It can be frightening and often perplexing; what interests me is when you start out with an idea, working it through, feeling it out thinking you know where your going, and then you end up in a very different place. We are all so complicated. So many things colour us, impress themselves on us marking and making us into something quite unique but never quite known, even to ourselves. Collage, physical and digital allows me to access actual layers and bring together bits and pieces of related and disparate materials, often leading to surprising results.’
EDUCATION:
OCA Toronto, Experimental Painting.
MA Printmaking, University of Maidstone UK.
SELECTED SHOW EXPERIENCES
1997 Collages, Queen Mother, Toronto
The Clothes that Bind, Idee Gallery, Toronto
1998 Mother and Daughter, Cameron House, Toronto
2011 Boundaries, Maidstone, Kent, UK
2012 Books and Pieces, Maidstone, Kent, UK
2018 See Jane Run, Carbon Art & Design, Picton
2018 Landscapes, 1313 Gallery, Toronto
2018 Positive Masculinity, Maison Depoivre
2019 Renew, 3 pieces selected for an online Auction for Picton Library
2022 Solo Show, Triage, Carbon Art & Design, Picton
SELECTED OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Teaching: Life Drawing/Bookbinding/Concepts and Ideas,
UCA Maidstone University and UCA Canterbury, Kent
Packaging design, InDesign Catalogue Creation, London, UK
Product Photography, London, UK
Grapevine Magazine, Prince Edward County, Catalogue Creation, Design, Layout and Print Ready
Canadian Art Teachers, Catalogue Creation, Design, Layout and Print Ready
Art In The County, Prince Edward County, Marketing Materials, Poster, Postcards and mor
The Prince Edward County Jazz Festival, all Marketing Materials
Wickerwoman, Layout and Design, Art Book with Pam Patterson and Karen Dukes
travelling mattes, Digital Illustration, Layout and Design, Art Book, with Pam Patterson
The Armoury, Unit 2F
206 Main Street, Picton
K0K 2T0
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