Trained at Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, in her  native Germany, Nadia mainly paints acrylic on canvas in a representational style. her work deals with architecture and the remains of human activity in landscape, with a specific focus on industrial history. Highlighting the way humanity exploits natural and human resources informs her choice of subject matter when painting locations around her new home in Crickhowell and further afield in Wales.

Looking beyond natural beauty, she seeks out sites that speak to the developments that have shaped today's landscape and the people within it - despite humans being conspicously absent from the paintings. The emptiness references the effects the death of the idustries has had on communities, who formerly proudly earned their living from them.

Spending time on location is an important part of her process. She concentrates on perspective and textures when taking reference photos or sketching on site. Back in the studio she starts with an underlying drawing before putting on multiple thin layers of paint with a palette knife, achieving a painterly finish within the details of the painting's surface.

Nadia will be exhibiting in the New Year show starting  mid January 2026.

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