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Selected Works

About Artist

Natalia Joubrina with Time Held
Natalia Joubrina with Time Held, 2026

Natalia Joubrina FRSA is a British contemporary painter based between London and Lake Como. Since beginning her artistic practice in 2020, she has developed an independent visual language centred on memory, time, resilience and the quieter processes through which identity takes shape.

Working primarily in oil, she creates contemplative scenes in which figures, architecture and natural elements sit in psychological balance. Recurring motifs, including water, windows, mirrors, moons, staircases and folded forms, are used as open-ended devices rather than fixed symbols, leaving space for the viewer’s own associations.

Her paintings often focus on moments of transition rather than dramatic events: a suspended object, a reflection, a folded dress, a thread held in tension. Across the work, change is presented as gradual and layered, something that unfolds through perception, memory and time.

Her artistic practice has developed alongside an established career in international finance, creating a dialogue between two distinct yet parallel professional worlds.

Artist Statement

My paintings begin with an image or an idea that feels familiar but cannot be fully explained. I am interested in the space between recognition and uncertainty, the moment when something appears to make sense, yet remains open to another interpretation.

My work is driven by psychological and philosophical questions, in particular how memory shapes identity, how perception alters what we believe to be real, and how much of who we become is determined by our own choices or by forces beyond our awareness. Time, free will and the instability of perception recur throughout my work, often expressed through figures, water, reflections, threads, thresholds and suspended objects.

I do not use these elements as fixed symbols. Their meaning shifts from one painting to another and, ultimately, with the person looking at them. I am drawn to images that leave something unresolved, allowing the viewer to instinctively reconstruct what is missing and bring their own experience to what they see. For me, painting is less about providing an answer than creating a space in which several possibilities can exist at once.

Selected Exhibitions & Achievements

Bath Society of Artists 121st Open Exhibition — One work pre-selected for final judgingBath, UK · August 2026
Arteporté · SURREALISM IV — Two works exhibitedTurin, Italy · July 2026
Marie Curie London Brain Game — One work exhibited in support of Marie Curie hospice care initiativesLondon, UK · March 2026

Professional Affiliation

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

Collections

Works held in private collections

Education

Self-directed artistic practice, since 2020
Master of Science
Bachelor of Arts

Artist Statement

For exhibition, acquisition, collaboration and commissioned work

Enquiries

studio@nataliajoubrina.com

Enquiries

For exhibition, acquisition, collaboration and commissioned work enquiries

studio@nataliajoubrina.com