"The first rays of red sun shone through the window, a blanket of red flame rippled over the surface of the ocean, and I realised that the vast expanse which had not been disturbed by the slightest movement in the past four days was beginning to stir."

Solaris, Stanislav Lem

Natalie Bone graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 1988. She has exhibited in mixed and one person shows including Uncovered Place, a one person show at the Barbican Centre, and has received the International Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award for painting. A residency at Skowhegan School of Art in Maine, USA was instrumental in the germination of ideas that inform this work.

Natalie Bone's subject matter is the very stuff of the earth, hovering between the two methods of carefully observed still life and abstract painting. They depict pebbles, rocks and stones, almost obsessive in the attention to the whole picture surface. The paintings are greatly influenced by the medium of computer imaging. Here the pebbles stretch, repeat and distort, in some cases almost flying off the canvas. As Natalie Bone puts it, "I use the conventions of computer imaging as an anamorphic mirror applied to the landscape."

Her method of painting is meticulous, often building up the image in layers. Some of the paintings depict white pebbles which almost disappear into the canvas, creating an etherial effect. Her influences include painters such as Gerhard Richter, Vija Celmins, and Therese Oulton who was a visiting tutor during her residency at Skowhegan. Other concerns include notions of the contemporary and technological sublime.