My art draws inspiration from nature, either highlighting issues like the misuse of resources and disposable consumer habits, or celebrating the beauty of water, land, sky, and the simple pleasure of gazing into a campfire. I visually record my reactions to social, environmental and political issues through a process of incubation, research and abstract expression. My work creates a portal to engage with large concepts through the use of humble materials.

I work conceptually on several series in a myriad of mediums. In the Breathing Room Series, I explores the concepts of spiritual connection, cosmos, political despair, language parameters, and moments of natural glory in new large scale works paying homage to the ethereal within our view, and beyond.  I create my own plant-based inks from her immediate surroundings as an initial layer before applying a variety of inks, paints, pastels, metallic leaf and mica flake to wood or canvas.  I shun the use of traditional tools, layering rich metallics highlighting the contrast between dark and light spaces using a range of objects, both discarded and natural. I seek to draw out unique textures and light that create a sense of reverence in the viewer.

“With the James Webb photos bringing a new vision and perspective, I have been inspired to focus on the meaning of infinite, religion, and spiritual and energy systems relative to the vastness of space and light are binding elements in these pieces.”

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Bio

 

Natalie Boburka is a mixed media conceptual artist known for working with natural and discarded materials. She has been a lifelong resident of New York State and currently lives in Greenville, NY at the foot of the Catskill Mountains, restoring an 1820’s brick farmhouse and large studio complex. Since retiring from a thirty-year career as a NYS certified visual art instructor, she has focused on continuing her private art practice, showing work in a variety of galleries and organizations throughout the Hudson Valley, Capital Region, and beyond. She has curated over forty art shows in numerous venues in NY. In 2022, Boburka founded a regional arts group called “Arts Around Greenville” and is the founder and Tour Director for the Arts Around Greenville Studio Tours and the Greenville Art in the Park Annual Event. She continues to teach and develop programs, offering workshops at her studio as well as at differing locations.

 

Boburka’s work is primarily conceptual and consists of several evolving series. She works in a variety of media, expressing reactions to social, environmental, feminist, spiritual, and political topics. Her work is primarily abstract fluctuating from layered colors to stark black and white graffiti style imagery. She often uses natural dyes as an underlayer for her paintings and natural or discarded objects such as seaweed and dried grasses to apply pigment or build pieces from She also creates feminist pieces with found and natural objects creating sculptural forms. Boburka is often influenced by traveling and collecting images and objects from different geographical settings which she uses to represent impressions of locales with color, texture, and movement. She creates poems and records sounds to immerse herself in the creative processing of place.

Boburka currently works with collage as suggested reminiscences, and large-scale pieces that seem ethereal, playing with soft muted whites, stark rich blacks and metallics. She works without brushes to create uniquely textured pieces swimming with subconscious possibilities. Reminiscent of galaxies, and topography, she plays in the area between definition and suggestion to engage the viewer emotionally and intellectually.