b. 1990 Dutch/British
Living and working in Norfolk, UK.
Selected Artistic Trainings
MA MCGI Therapeutic Arts Counsellor (Transpersonal Arts in Therapy), Tobias School of Art & Therapy, Sussex, UK, 2019 (first class honours)
Working for private commissions 2014-present
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Invict/us Magazine, Issue 4, 2024
The Horae Journal, Aligned Light, SS 2023
PAST EXHBITIONS
Daylight, Group exhibition, Creek Creative, Faversham, 15th-28th June 2016
Paintings by Aphra Natley, Deli X, London, Nov 2014 – Jan 2015
Group Exhibition, Southfield’s Gallery, Wimbledon, London, 1st-5th July 2014
Drawing and Paintings by Aphra Natley, Wild Food Café, Covent Garden, Jan –May 2014
NOW FALMOUTH, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, 19th-24th September 2013
Falmouth Showcase: Selected works, Dye House, Peckham, London, 28th-30th June 2013
Falmouth University Degree Show (BA) Hons Fine Art, Falmouth University, 15th-19th June 2013
Silent Auction Fundraiser, Espressini, Falmouth, March 2013“Interlude”, Independent BA Fine Art 2nd Year Show, Fish Factory, Falmouth, June 2012.
Prelude, Falmouth University 2nd Year Show, The Poly, Falmouth, Cornwall 2012
ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings are meditative and therapeutic channels that bring oneself closer to soul and human nature. They emerge through a animistic worldview and approach to art as self-inquiry, and a force for good. In the echos of Jung, the art aims to unveil a passage into mystery between a 'tension of opposites', diving into subtler, non-dual realms, revealing through form a transcendant mirror.
Each painting is a gentle window to confide in, a transpersonal mirror to illuminate something of soul life; of consciousness and the working through of personal and collective karmic shadow, of death and rebirth, of form again giving way to energy, the mystery of life, whilst revering Spirit in all nature.