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Nathalie's art education began at the Cleveland Museum of Art at age five.
Her family recognized that her favorite past time was drawing and painting, and encouraged her passionate interest in art. Sketching and making art using
any medium was the springboard for her life. She won numerous art awards through elementary school, high school, and college, for her prints, paintings, and sculptures (bronze and clay).

Her first daunting artistic challenge came as a teenager while she contemplated the forest next to her home. She wondered, "How can I express the view of all these trees with light filtering through their infinite numbers of leaves -- how can anyone possibly express this in a painting!" Her family had numerous books on the impressionist painters.

She recalls finding "The Age of Impressionism" book on the shelf and in its pages found the answer to nature's infinite detail! With an impressionistic approachs to her paintings, she was launched into the world of color and light; a lifelong endeavor to express her creative vision using paint on canvas.

Nathalie's deep relationship with nature moves through her brushes. She looks for the secrets and mysteries that might emerge as scenes in her work. The images that grow through experiences, realizations, and relationships, become the vital source for meaning and for the paintings she creates. The precious beauty of nature, from woods to ocean and scenic vistas, suggest a mysterious presence that Nathalie aspires to show through imagery. Sometimes the landscapes whisper from an inner source and a very personal "soul scape" emerges.

The pure act of painting is her passion, and her style is representational, painterly, impressionistic, and bold. Over the years, Nathalie has explored a wide range of pallet and subject matter, though her style has always been recognizable. The common theme in all of her paintings is mystery and light.

art@worthingtonstudios.com.
Studio visits are welcome by appointment.
~ 1434 Farrington Road ~
Phone: 727.510.7573


Nathalie's artwork is included in many private and public collections. She has exhibited her work in numerous one woman and group shows:
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, NC
Carrboro Art Center, Carrboro, NC
Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, GA, Cleveland Garden Center, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Women's City Club, Cleveland Intown Club, Cleveland, OH, Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL, Pentagon Gallery, Cleveland, OH, One Tampa City Center, Tampa, FL, Epcot, Orlando, FL, Arts Cener, Carrboro, NC, Sertoma, Raleigh, NC, Carolina Community College, Pittsboro, NC

Member of Florida Plein Air Painters and NC Paints Plein Air, North Carolina
Impressionist Society, FL


CITY AUTUMN

WORTHINGTON STUDIOS
1434 Farrington Road
Apex, NC
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Exhibit at the

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Nature Art Gallery

- February 5-28, 2010 -

Painting Prairie Ridge

Paintings by Paint NC plein air group

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CHATHAM COUNTY STUDIO TOUR
#41 on your map
http://www.chathamstudiotour.com/artists/artists-alpha.html


Enjoy the tour, and let your route bring you to Nathalie's studio on Farrington Road, one mile north of 64. You'll find many new paintings, and fine art reproductions, prices from $5.00 to $1,200.00. Here are directions:

From the East (Raleigh, Cary),
Take I-64 (West) and turn right at the Wilsonville traffic light (Farrington Road).
Take Farrington Road (north) approximately one mile. Pass the Bells Church, a house, and then Jordan Lake Business Center is the next driveway.


From the South (Sanford, Fuquay-Varina, Pinehurst)
Take US-1 (North) to I-64 (West). Follow “From the East” directions above.
Or, take US 15/501/NC-87 (North) to I-64 (East) and follow “From the West” directions above.
Or, take US-421 (North) to I-64 (East) and follow “From the West” directions below.

From the West (Siler City, Pittsboro, Greensboro)
Take I-64 (East) and cross over Jordan Lake. Turn left at the Wilsonville traffic light (Farrington Road).
Take Farrington Road (north) approximately one mile. Pass the Bells Church, a house, and the next driveway is Jordan Lake Business Center (a renovated old brick school)

From the North (Chapel Hill/Carrboro)
Take US 15/501 to Mt. Carmel Church Road and turn left (South). Stay on this road—it will become Mt. Carmel Rd, Farrington Point Road and Farrington Road.
The Jordan Lake Business Center will be on the left, one mile before I-64. If you get to the Crosswinds Marina on the right, you have gone too far.

Look for #46 on the Studio Tour sign (Red triangle with white number)


"Gaea" Chosen for the cover of the Inner Change Magazine
April/ May 2008
"Ned" Chosen for the cover of the Arts section of the Carrboro Citizen
Volume 1 - No. 7, April 2008
"Ned" Chosen as winner by Panzanella, in Carrboro, NC

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Beginning with lithographic prints in the 1980's, Nathalie has moved along with the advances made in art reproduction, in order to create her own line of giclee prints. The French word GICLEE literally means fine spray, and so the permanent inks are sprayed on the medium (paper or canvas) at a pre-determined size. Each print is carefully inspected and then signed by Nathalie. Hand embellishments can be special ordered. An art reproduction on canvas or Somerset Velvet watercolor paper will remain brilliantly colorful for many many years.

Contact Nathalie by phone or e-mail for more information.

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A view of the courtyard outside the studio. These plant beds recycle all the water used by the building. Green and beautiful.
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Art walk, 2006, Carrboro, NC
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Hello from the Epcot 2004 International Flower and Garden Show

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Prints and original art works are available for purchase by contacting Nathalie at art@worthingtonstudios.com.
Studio visits are welcome by appointment
~ 1434 Farrington Road ~ Phone: 919.362.8686

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CHECK OUT THE BEMA CHAIR, MADE BY NATHALIE



 

BLOSSOM WARRIOR













MARRIAGE

OREO'S WONDERMENT

POPPY

PHOENIX

RAINBIRD

SURF


Painting with passion, Worthington infuses her paintings with life. She endeavors to express the sanctity of nature in the hope that a place of high regard will be touched
in the viewer, kindling a resolve to take good care
of our Natural World.
Worthington approaches her paintings with lively bold strokes; the underpainting- then layer after layer of color is laid on, with overall washes to tone and deepen the image. A vibrant likeness of landscapes, flowers, and animals emerges from the canvas.






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