Natasha Wein (b. 1995)

Natasha Wein (she/her) is a self-taught physically disabled 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 Aotearoa (New Zealand) roots, and her experience living with a traumatic brain injury and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which has left her with spine injuries and multi-systemic illnesses.

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

She owns a small business, Berkshire Resin Art, where she makes nature jewelry, tables, and home decor and preserves wedding and memorial bouquets into works of art.

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