About
Nadia's paintings use both natural and imaginary motifs, exploring our romantic connection to nature and to one another.
Her animations, illustrations and patterns come from a more playful place- She has been described as 'Hermes on acid' and takes that as a compliment. Nadia engages with the absurd and humorous as well as the dark... Her works capture dreams, dancers in motion and dinner table theatrics.
Nadia has worked on projects internationally, her animations have been screened at film festivals around the world, and have acquired awards along the way. They have been projected in cinemas, galleries, the live stage, onto the sail of a boat and on public television. Her paintings, murals and prints are in various private and public collections in the US and UK. Nadia draws every year for the Met Opera, creating scarf prints inspired by their musical productions.
After living in New York City for 28 years, her studio is now based in London...
Paintings, murals and prints
Nadia has created works for the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC; the Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, BMG Sony Classics, NYC and Berlin, Absolut Vodka, Delta Airlines, the Reception Rooms at the United States Department of State, the Pierre Hotel, the Guggenheim Museum, Neiman Marcus, Liberty of London, and Artisan Publishing House, NYC among others.
Animations
Nadia's animations have been screened at film festivals world wide, winning awards along the way.
She has created animated backdrops for the plays 'Drowning Crow' at the Manhattan Theatre Club and the musical 'Grey Gardens', both of which were realised on Broadway. Her animations formed the backdrops for the comic opera 'Naked Revolution' at the Guthrie Theatre Lab commissioned by the Walker Art Foundation in Minneapolis and at The Kitchen, NYC. Her animations have been projected with live musical performances at Le Poisson Rouge NYC and City Winery NYC. Nadia has animated and directed several short films for HBO TV, PBS TV, and Sesame Street, and animated sequences for the documentary film In Glorious Smell-O-Vision. Nadia animated three highly successful national TV commercials involving 50's Hollywood movie stars as vegetables for Publicis Advertising Agency and GlaxoSmithKline. MOMA purchased her award winning hand drawn animated film 'Serenade' for their picture library film collection.
Awards include
The Tom Phillips Drawing Prize
First prize Asifa East Charles Samu Award
Black Maria Directors Choice Award
Ann Arbor Film Festival Audience Prize
Best single subject cookbook for the USA category-Gourmand awards- Granita Magic which she wrote and illustrated as a testament to the marriage of food and art.
(Contact Nadia here for exhibitions, murals, collaborations ...)
Nadia's silkscreen print 'Balancing Act' at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024