Creating a kind of modern day ‘Book of Hours’ Kissell explores the traditions of liturgical hours of the day in this series of paintings. Rather than being bound by time keeping in a mechanical way, she seeks to free time from its constraints and refer back to a pre-modern dialogue in which time is structured around spiritual meditations. This is in a way Marxist in its intention to liberate the individual from capitalist agendas where time means money, and we, the agents of production are encouraged into maximum productivity.
In dealing with space and time in her paintings, Kissell plays with Kant’s spatial-temporal philosophies of being. As light changes in her landscapes, so the spiritual resonances change and different stages of the day like dusk and dawn create a different state of being.

It is not surprising to discover that the work of the highly acclaimed artist Natasha Kissell appears in many significant collections around the world. Natasha’s work is beautifully eloquent forcing us, the viewer, to question our very relationship to nature and the culture of decadence. Natasha’s work demands the viewer to engage with it. It is uncompromisingly beautiful. Freedom Studios have been afforded this wonderful opportunity to exhibit the work of Natasha Kissell.