Natalie Linda Winters is a NJ and NC licensed psychologist, psychodramatist, wife, mother and grandmother. In recent years she has reignited her love of creating art. She specializes in pastel on suede board which gives her work a rich, life-like quality. Her other medium of choice is oil painting.
From early childhood, when she was deeply influenced by her brother, an award winning artist-sculptor, Winters has been devoted to the arts. While in junior high school, she was president of the art club and encouraged by her art teacher to pursue her talents. As a teenager, she performed modern interpretive dance in many venues, among them Carnegie Hall, and sang in choruses performing in places such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
As an adult she performed in community theater. Her love of theater led her to develop, direct and host her own cable television program in the Princeton, NJ area that aired for three years.
After moving to Florida 13 years ago, she became an avid gardener and began to dabble in art again. It wasn't until 2004 that she became a serious artist. Winters said, "I just got itchy fingers. It's very difficult to describe the drive to create. It's simply something you have to do."
A gardener and lover of flowers, Winters has created a series of pictgures called The Inner Gardener, which was featured in the Tampa Tribune. Buyers of her art work say she has a "velvet touch."
Featured pictures from the Inner Gardener series were hanging in the following Florida venues: Dunedin Arts Center, Great Art and Frame in Westchase, Tampa, the Artists Gallery Royale, St.Petersburg and the Suntan Art Gallery, (where she was featured artist of the month). Shows include Howard Allen Art shows in Hyde Park, Tampa, Sarasota and Venice Beach.
Examples of her oils and pastels can be seen in this website in the Gallery.
