Born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Seattle, Washington, Natasha’s interest in painting blossomed at the age of ten while living in Paris with her family.  She attended the California Institute of the Arts in its heyday, formalizing her creative spirit from 1972 through 1977.

After brief stays in Los Angeles, Miami and Paris, Natasha moved to New York in 1979.  For the next seventeen years, she combined her interests in music, theater and painting: designing sets, writing and performing her own avant-garde shows at La Mama, The Kitchen, P.S. 122 and continuing to paint.  During these years in New York, Natasha spent extended periods in Patzquaro Mexico, Amsterdam, Paris and on the West Coast.  Her travels vividly emerge in the color and technique of her work.  In New York, Natasha participated in a number of gallery shows, including group and solo shows at Bridgewater Gallery and Semaphore East Gallery.

Natasha's artwork spans an array of media: her "Devotional Handbags" (iridescent acrylic paintings on vintage purses "for women's spiritual needs: lipstick, rosaries, holy ash, etc."), acrylic paintings and drawings on paper, and mixed media collage.  "My work is of a spiritual nature," says Natasha.  "Ever since my first portrait in 1972, I knew that the people I painted, artists, nurses, boys I met at the shoe repair, were all potential saints.  They were all beautiful.  Everyone is beautiful."  She refers to her work as both "elegantly primitive" and completely intuitive.

Over the years, Natasha has had the privilege of knowing and working with a range of exceptionally gifted artists.  They include Fay Jones, painter; Lydia Benglis, sculptor; Jim Starrett, painter; Don Levy, filmmaker; Donald Byrd, choreographer; Brian Eno, producer and composer; and Frank Gohlke, photographer.  Natasha has been referred to as “an artist’s artist.”