Natasha Wein (b. 1995)

Natasha Wein is a self-taught artist, writer, and small-business owner raised in Palo Alto, California now working out of Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Her psychoanalytically-informed creative process is founded on intuition, projection, and analysis, studying the dialogue between abstraction and language as a window into the unconscious. She works symbolically with materials and techniques to make sense of difficult experiences and reorganize memories into more hopeful narratives. She sees her role in the world to be that of a translator, integrating the internal and the external, as well as the abstract and the physical.

Working by series, she creates narrative-driven art exhibitions exploring themes of liminality and transition, connection and isolation, development and interference, injury and mending, conflicted desires, and resilience. She primarily works with acrylic, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper and canvas and experiments with different ways to leave impressions, including using ergonomic movements as a guide to making marks with her feet. Her work is influenced by psychodynamic theory, anatomy, nature, identity, STEM-related subjects, her bicoastal and New Zealand roots, and her experience living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

Her first book of poetry, The Stains We Keep, is available for purchase through Bottlecap Press. Her poems have featured in 8Poems, Another New Calligraphy’s Impossible Task, and Beltway Quarterly. She’s a staff writer for Réapparition Journal. She was a recipient of the 2022 Daniel Manacher Prize for Young Artists. She was on Change Your Mind which aired on Roku and Amazon Fire (watch the unedited version here) and was interviewed by Canvas Rebel, Bold Journey, and ArtByArtists and featured in Suboart Magazine Nr. 21. She received a grant for creative individuals from the Mass Cultural Council in 2024.

She owns a small business, Berkshire Resin Art, where she works with resin epoxy, making nature-inspired jewelry and home decor using locally harvested flora, fungi, and found-dead insects. She also preserves wedding and funeral bouquets into works of art.

When she’s not creating, she enjoys cooking, reading, teaching, swimming in wild cold water, comedy, training youth soccer players, parrots, and curry with extra cilantro.

Follow Natasha on Instagram @nweinart