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Natalie Winters

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Spotlight on Natalie:

Natalie Linda Winters is a NJ and NC licensed psychologist, psychodramatist, wife, mother and grandmother. In recent years she has reignited her love of creating art. She specializes in pastel on suede board which gives her work a rich, life- like quality. Her other medium of choice is oil painting.

From early childhood, when she was deeply influenced by her brother, an award winning artist-sculptor, Winters has been devoted to the arts. While in junior high school, she was president of the art club and encouraged by her art teacher to pursue her talents. As a teenager, she performed modern interpretive dance in many venues, among them Carnegie Hall, and sang in choruses performing in places such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music. During her college years at SUNY, Oswego, she took classes with Roy Lichtenstein. He later became a world renowned artist.

As an adult she performed in community theater. Her love of theater led her to develop, direct and host her own cable television program in the Princeton, NJ area that aired for three years.

After moving to Florida 11 years ago, she became an avid gardener and began to pursue her painting again. It wasn’t until 2004 that she became a professional artist. Winters said, “I just got itchy fingers. It’s very difficult to describe the drive to create. It’s simply something you have to do.”

A gardener and lover of flowers, Winters has created a series of pictures called The Inner Gardener, which was featured in the Tampa Tribune. Buyers of her work say she has a “velvet touch.” Similarly, her oils reflect the mood the mystique of people and places.

Featured pictures from the Inner Gardener series were hanging in the Duneden Arts Center, Great Art and Frame in Westchase, Tampa, and most recently in the Artists Gallery Royale and the Suntan Gallery in St. Pete Beach where she was artist of the month. Her “Secret Man” won a blue ribbon. Winters is a newcomer to Cary, NC.