 I'm a fantasy illustrator and comic book artist based in Italy where I lived for most of my life. Starting at my earliest memories, I have always had a passion for drawing and fantasy subjects. I remember that when I was a child I spent hours drawing characters from tales I made up for my friends or my sister. Literally, I was a girl with a lively imagination: the idea of taking a blank piece of paper and knowing that anything is possible: drawing pirates, princesses and valorous knights from lost realms, strange creatures and never told before stories, well…it was and it is amazing to me!
My style is a sort of collage of subjects I studied, places I visited, paintings I like, novels and comic books I read, all those things that I liked and I like without any particular connexion to art, sometimes. That said, Art Nouveau, 16th century Italian painting, European graphic novels, and Japanese manga are probably my main sources of inspiration.
I work part time as commissioned freelance artist from late 2002 when I began accepting art assignments, and when I’ve started posting my artwork on online art communities and running my personal website nati-art.com. I use predominately markers with a painting style that often utilizes mixed techniques like watercolor, coloured pencils and soft pastels.
My art has appeared in various art books, the most notable being “The Art of Faery” and “The World of Faery” from Paper Tiger Publications and ‘Gothic Art Now’ from Collins Design as well as several online publications and printed magazines. Recently, I have had my own ’solo’ art-book published in France from ‘Le Calepin Jaune Editions’.
b o o k s | p r e s s
. 'Fairy Tale' music album by Ken Young. September 2009.
. 'Dolls' Collectors News', issue no. 52, Italy. Winter 2009. It contains 1 of my illustrations.
. 'Precious Things' my first solo art-book published by 'Le Calepin Jaune Edition' as deluxe limited edition is sold out! March 2009.
. 'Realms of Fantasy' magazine, US. April 2009. Illustration for 'Sand Castles' story.
. 'ImagineFX', UK. February 2009. Featured artist.
. 'Gothic Art now' from Collins Design, 2008. Cover artist and it contains one of my Voodoo Child series illustration.
. 'Realms of Fantasy' magazine, US. Summer 2008. Illustrated the short tale 'Somebody desperately needed to be Neil Gaiman'.
. 'Coyote Magazine' issue #28, France. Summer 2008. Featured artist.
. 'Japanese Magazine', Japan. July 2008. Featured artist.
. 'Realms of Fantasy' magazine, US. Spring 2008. Two illustrations for an article about Italian fairy tales.
. 'Cricket Magazine', US. 2008. Illustrated the short story "Explorer".
. 'Fées Divers Magazine', France. 2008. Featured artist plus interview.
. 'Art Scene International Magazine', from Vest-Netz , Germany. 2007. Featured artist.
. 'MONO' issue # 03, Edizioni Tunue', Italy. 2007. It contains 1 of my illustrations
. 'Journal of Mythic Arts from Endicott Studio'. 2007. Featured artist.
. 'Artzmania #04' from SpotBit, 2007. Featured artist.
. 'Mage: Tome of Mysteries'. Summer 2006. Done 5 monochrome illustrations for White Wolf Publishing, US.
. 'RE-fresh' magazine, US/UK. Autumn 2005. Collaboration with the photographer Robert Jr. Mendolia.
. 'Linda Ravenscroft. How to draw faeries' from Quarto Group Publishing, UK. September 2005. Contains "Sheer Water in her Eyes" illustration.
. 'The World of Fairy' from Paper Tiger/Chrysalis Publishing, UK. September 2005. Contains 4 of my images plus an updated bio.
. '500 Fairy Motifs' from Collins and Brown Publishing, UK. September 2005. Contains 2 of my images.
. 'Creative Minds' Artwanted.com. December 2004. Contains 3 of my images plus a short bio.
. 'The New Masters of Fantasy 2003'. 50 fantasy artists CDrom from Epilogue.net. October 2003. Contains 8 of my images plus a detailed bio.
. 'The Art of Faery' from Paper Tiger/Chrysalis Publishing, October 2003. Contains 7 of my images plus a detailed bio.
s h o w s
. 'Puddletown' at Compound Gallery, Portland US. December 2008.
. 'Masters Reborn: re-imagining the greats' at Compound Gallery, Portland US. April 2008.
o n l i n e i n t e r v i e w s
. For ArtLibs. June 2009.
. For carbonmade. September 2008.
. For de l’autre côté du miroir (in French). August 2008.
. For textyladies. July 2008.
c r e d i t s and c o p y r i g h t
nati-art is © 2002 and beyond by Natalia *nati* Pierandrei. Site established in October, 5 2002. Hosted by SPS Host. The site's layout, webgraphics, all content and drawings are © Natalia *nati* Pierandrei unless otherwise noted. Do not take or use anything from the site unless you get my specific permission to do it first. HTML pages are created and edited with MS Notepad. That means the source code is fully copyrighted to me, and you can't copy it to make your own layouts. Best viewed with MSIE 5+ or FF 1+ under 1024 x 768 resolution or higher and with at least High Color mode. Site graphics created using Adobe Photoshop 6.0.
Thank you all for *supernatural* support and understanding. And a special thanks to all the people who linked to this website and promote my art all around the web. Nati loves you ^_^
The quote scrolling on the status bar has been taken from a Tim Burton's poem.
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