Surreal Fashion

Surreal Fashion is a series of dream-like visual worlds with allusions to both couture photography and classical artworks. The artist's detailed compositions, with their mixture of styles and evocative lighting, arouse associations to archaic palatial settings, Rococo Revival and is a form of contemporary commentary on the artistic expression found in salon paintings of the 18th century. Many of the images notably feature elements from classical paintings including Adriaen van Utrecht, Melchior d'Hondecoeter and Otto Marseus van Schrieck; creatively and strategically combining modern with old, and birthing a new creation from paintstroke to pixel. Dreamy characters bask in opulent worlds from the sublime to the bizarre. Zoo animals peer from French chateaus, a yellow tulle dress explodes into the canaries of Jean Baptiste Greuze, and painted ships of an English stately home dance upon the waves of a model's cascading skirts. Natalie has been working on the collection for 10 years, shooting extensively on location worldwide. The result is a visual feast crossing centuries of art history.